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A Times-selected history: How ​​did America end up stuck in a nightmare of conspiracy theories, where millions view the government as an evil deep state? In 1967, at the height of the Vietnam War, a group of New York writers fabricated what seemed like a top-secret government report on what would happen to the United States if lasting world peace were achieved. An Iron Mountain report claimed that downsizing America's massive war machine would devastate the economy and tear apart society, necessitating severe restrictions on the population. Published as a non-fiction book, the report was frighteningly convincing. Journalists tried to find out who wrote it, and notes of concern reached the president. The report became a popular issue of public opinion. Even when the hoax was exposed, many refused to believe it wasn't real. Eager figures from the far right and the militia movement seized on the report, insisting that it exposed horrific government plots to pollute the environment, enslave Americans, and even promote eugenics. His legacy still exists today. "Ghosts of Iron Mountain" traces this story through a group of prominent figures, beginning with the radical academic C. Wright Mills, and writers E. the. Doctoroff, Victor Navasky, and Leonard Lewin in New York in the 1960s, through to far-right ideologue Willis Carto, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, conspiracy theorist Milton William Cooper, and L. Fletcher Prouty (who inspired the character "Mr. This is one of the greatest stories of our time, revealing how nightmares about its government drove America mad.