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Nuclear war outranks all other calamities in its capacity to quickly destroy the world, including everything and everyone we love.

Democracy Now, JULY 03, 2023 As we remember Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who died in June, we look at how he was also a lifelong anti-nuclear activist, stemming from his time working as a nuclear planner for the U.S. government. In December 2017, he joined us to discuss his memoir, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of…

Avoiding nuclear war may require compromise—just as in Cuban missile crisis

Most obituaries for Daniel Ellsberg focus on the courage he summoned when he disclosed the Pentagon Pagers.

Article: Daniel Ellsberg: Master of War, Champion of Peace - This is a goodbye appreciation piece for the value Daniel Ellsberg brought to the public with his revelations about secret government workings.

Dan Ellsberg was loathed especially for courageous acts that many disapproving colleagues knew deep down that they should have emulated. His release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 spurred anti-war momentum enormously and proved what critics had been saying all along. I was well aware of him from that moment forward, although, as we learned later, we both had been tear gassed during the 1971 Mayday demonstrations in Washington DC but in different areas of town. Dan soon emerged as a moral figure ...

Ellsberg died June 16 at age 92. We listen back to a 2017 interview with him, and speak with New York Times correspondent Charlie Savage about Ellsberg's most recent document leak, at age 90.

Daniel Ellsberg speaking at a press conference in 1972. Photo: Gernard Gotfryd, public domain Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level military analyst who coura

Disillusioned by the Vietnam War, he leaked a top-secret history of the conflict, leading to a landmark Supreme Court case By Harrison Smith and Patricia Sullivan / Washington Post - Reader Supported News / June 19, 2023 Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the voluminous, top-secret history of the Vietnam War known as the Pentagon Papers, a…

Lessons from a nuclear life