Not Even Past: Dan Ellsberg vs. New Madmen's Theories of Cold War & Press Suppression
Antiwar.com Original Once upon a time, the United States of America – the world’s self-styled "beacon of democracy" – nearly nuked China’s then 600 millions worth of innocents. This, before Beijing even had any A-Bombs of its own. Well, that much we’ve known, in broad strokes – though, I fear, without the requisite resultant soul-searching – since historian Gordon Chang’s 1988 journal article (which I was assigned in graduate school en-route to West Point’s faculty): "JFK, China, and the Bomb." Chang’s peer-reviewed scholarly submission made waves –...
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