In a tradition of political satire that ranges from A MODEST PROPOSAL to DR. STRANGELOVE falls the perplexing, ingenious, and ceaselessly curious REPORT FROM IRON MOUNTAIN. Upon its first appearance in 1967, this best-selling secret government report sparked immediate debate among journalists and scholars with its disturbingly convincing claim: a condition of permanent peace at the end of the Cold War would threaten our nation's ecomic and social stability. Although finally identified as an antimilitarist hoax by writer/editor Leonard Lewin, who conceived and launched the book with a consortium of peace movement intellectuals including future NATION editors Victor Navasky and Richard Lingerman, velist E.L. Doctorow, and ecomist John Kenneth Galbraith, IRON MOUNTAIN would eventually take on a life of its own.
