ellsberg was a leading, if not the leading young war thinker. >> the atomic bomb had changed so much. and the military knew that they needed fresh thinking. and they established rand and deliberately located it on the west coast of the united states so that it would be beyond the reach of anybody in washington who wanted to meddle in it. and essentially people were encouraged to think knew thoughts, to think big. >> dan really impressed people, smart, imaginative, good at technical reasoning, good at loc. he could collect ideas from anywhere. he could read short stories and get ideas. >> my work at harvard was on decision making under