Daniel Ellsberg Reveals He was a Nuclear War Planner, Warns of Nuclear Winter & Global Starvation
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- democracynow.org - Could tension between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un bring us to the brink of nuclear war? As tensions ramp up, we discuss what nuclear war would look like with a former nuclear war planner and one of the world’s most famous whistleblowers-Daniel Ellsberg. In 1971, Ellsberg was a high-level defense analyst when he leaked a top-secret report on U.S. involvement in Vietnam to The New York Times and other publications, which came to be known as the Pentagon Papers. He played a key role in ending the Vietnam War. Few know Ellsberg was also a Pentagon and White House consultant who drafted plans for nuclear war. His new book, published Tuesday, is titled “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner.” We speak with Ellsberg about his top-secret nuclear studies, his front row seat to the Cuban missile crisis, whether Trump could start a nuclear war and how contemporary whistleblowers Chelsea Manning and Ed Snowden are his heroes.
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Great information yet terrifying!
I think it may be time for humanity to step aside and let a new species evolve to govern the planet, we are clearly not up to the task.
let the blue butterflies run the planet
That's ancient fallacy humans believe themselves to be governors of this planet.We are greatly disconnected with the rest of nature to comprehend the seriousness of our immature behaviour toward all life throughout this universe.
Good point, I don't think any other species is arrogant enough to appoint themselves the kings of creation.
Homo sapiens are what they are. Liberals are the dumbest of the bunch.
Anyone who contemplates nuclear war is, by definition, the dumbest of the bunch.
For the love of God! Why did he (and others) wait so long to give America these facts. Don't they realize that this information was important for us to know? I for one, am glad to hear his call to other possible whistle blowers.
Helen Holden please become familiar with Dan Ellsberg. And yes complete elimination of all life on Earth isn’t humanity’s best idea.
A chilling interview. At over 80 years of age, I'm old enough to remember the drills in school that had us "duck and cover," i.e. get under your desk. Given the terrifying scenario described in the Ellsberg interview (and in his book, which I just read), the proper drill is to "bend over, stick your head between your legs, now kiss you ass goodby!" We now have two psychopaths with their short, fat, stubby fingers on the nuclear button. I believe it was Einstein who said: "The ultimate fate of mankind is that he will civilize himself to death.
Any hero working within the Military Industrial Complex, please be a Brave Wistle Blower and save the world by exposing all committed or planed crimes against humanity.
I love Daniel Ellsberg.
Perhaps the most important video clips shown at approximately: 7 min, 28 min, 33 minutes. So many people choose to bury there heads in the sand or are SO desensitized
incapable of comprehending this reality that I thought perhaps getting right to the "pictures" might spark some interest or understanding.
100 Holocausts is such a chilling way to interpret the deaths. Sadly, as he says, it would have been far worse. Terrifying.
Brilliant analysis by Daniel Ellsberg
THANKS. Horrifying. And a great man who took huge risks and changed his world.
It is terrifying how little views of this.
6:00 - an how many sorties would such operation take and how long would it last, even assuming zero casualties and strike back?
Daniel Ellsberg said it correctly. “Incalculable.”
Legend
Who ever you are that has this knowledge you must come forward release those papers for all to see, so that we can clear these war mongers out of Washington before its to late!
God bless Mr, Ellsburg, Chelsea Manning, And Edward Snowden
These are great Americans!
With Chernobyl, Fukushima and whatever happened in the Russian Ural's a few weeks ago, nuclear war effects have already started. In the next 10 years more nuclear power plants will experience failures and catastrophic releases due to the age of the facilities. Not to mention all the atmospheric, underwater and underground nuclear testing over the last 70 years.
Granville Higgins I may never be able to sleep well again. That's beyond a terrifying thought. Though a very needed point.
toxic wasteland continuum.Species extinct,genetic dysfunction,air,water,soil pollution.Slow agonising death.
Not to mention inadequate, leaking nuclear waste storage sites
Well whatever happens...
Strangelove is Pilger's favourite film lol
After being given messages of such solemnity and graveness, the news about Time Magazine's POY and your smile seem oddly out of place.
Democracy Now, Why you ALWAYS HAVE PROBLEM WITH VOLUME? Please record for the people be able to hear your show being at least 10 feets distance from their computer. Not everybody has the time to be glued to the screen. Thank you for a report. You should invite guests, who should warn about nuclear war CONSTANTLY, AT LEAST EVERY WEEK!
Daniel revelations is very worrying and scary!
How did Stanley Kubrick knew all this?
Here's a question, why do they always wait till they have one foot in the grave to come forward with "new" world shaking news?
Barry A. "If."
'Vic Rattlehead' endorsed planning.
Pheww ....thats lucky !! I actually live at the tip of New Zealand.....and I love moluscs
30:00 Yeah, and it sounds like you get to be a part of the global 1% according to the study Ellsberg is citing. Neat. One can hope that the margin of error considers some other threat as a fallout cloud or the ozone damage to ensure that the 1% holds.
[Turgidson advocates a further nuclear attack to prevent a Soviet response to Ripper's attack]
General "Buck" Turgidson: Mr. President, we are rapidly approaching a moment of truth both for ourselves as human beings and for the life of our nation. Now, truth is not always a pleasant thing. But it is necessary now to make a choice, to choose between two admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless *distinguishable*, postwar environments: one where you got twenty million people killed, and the other where you got a hundred and fifty million people killed.
President Merkin Muffley: You're talking about mass murder, General, not war!
General "Buck" Turgidson: Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.
President Merkin Muffley: I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler.
General "Buck" Turgidson: Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American People than with your image in the history books.
325 million in the attack, 100 million from fall out, 100 million in Western Europe from fall out, 100 million in the surrounding countries from fallout. 1/5 of the world population at that time.
Yes, the technical term is MAD, Mutual Armed Destruction.
What happened to Amy’s right eye?
My God! Why have individuals developed these weapons without any forethought of the catastrophic ends? What good could come from specific inventions? How intelligent can one be who creates self destruction? WTH is wrong with humanity? We are supposed to be motivated by self preservation. Clearly, some of us are dysfunctional. Sadly, the dysfunctional among us are running the country. God help us all!
If you didn't miss the school, you'd know that it was exactly this - self preservation - that inspired development and build up of nuclear weapons.
_Neutron bombs_ were once spoken of during the Carter years, do they exist today?
I highly recommend The Decline And Fall Of The Human Race. You can find it on amazon.
The probability that we will destroy one another hopefully whatever rises In the aftermath will do better
Our great responsibility is to life itself , not only ourselves as a species but all life on our world ! No individual or group or party
or tribal or national leadership has or ought to have the right to determine
our potential destruction !
It would be an unconscionable obscene and horrific act of unmeasurable proportions taken for all the wrong reasons or excuses !
Yes playing chicken........people need to find better things to do with their time......other then name calling.
Only a fool would follow someone who is leading them to be slaughtered.
"White people "we got high IQ
1:15 “played a key role in ending the Vietnam war”
Given the state of the World and the reality that we are seeing unfold before us, one has to ask the legitimate question if this is what we all deserve. Decades of reports, artistic depictions of the savagery of the modern age, and the willful abandonment of responsibility by the public towards real politics for never ending childhood has brought us to this point. The final click of the guillotine has sounded, it is primed and ready to fall. The populations of the world will not react in time, they are distracted by the transcendent spectacle of the curtains being pulled back to reveal the mad machine that we have built. The blade will fall, and the universe will continue to spin as it always has, unknowing, unloving, and indifferent to what transpired here.
Tonight a comedian died...
Fear mongering. The won’t be a nuclear war. If there is, I already have a bad ass Mad Max car and a crossbow! Oh, and a double barreled shotgun with three shells! 😂
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Its going to happen..
I really hope not. This is super horrible
It's up to the people to stand up....impeach trump
nice job placing fear in the public! this guy stole top secret documents and secrets from feds? isn't that illegal to go public with military defense/offence secrets?
Maureen Neilson-Sewell May I suggest you learn the history of Ellsberg's legal case?
READY WHEN YA READY FOR WHAT EVER RIGHT ? YES ! PLEASE JUST STOP THE ATTACKS ! TODAY TOMORROW FAMILY IF YA THINK I SHOULD DO THAT IN MY PRESENT STATE FINE FAMILY ! ONE WAY OTHER THE OTHER I WANT THIS SITUATION TO ME DEALT WITH FAMILY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE RIGHT !! BE SAID THAT QUIET A FEW TIMES NOW FAMILY ON YA PAGES RIGHT ? YES ! EVEN ON BLACK AND NOBEL YOU TUBE PAGE RIGHT ? YES I DID ! SO WHAT SEEMS TO BE THE PROBLEM NOW FAMILY ?
Once the king of peace is on the mount of olives he will lead his army
IF WHAT I AM SEEING ON YA TV IS TRUE RIGHT ? SO WHY I AM STILL HERE AND BEING TORMENTED ? NOT IN SOME KIND OF TRAINING RIGHT ? PLUS GOD WITH OUR GLOBAL YOUTHS ! PLUS ME HAVE BETTER WAYS FOR DEALING WITH TOUGH INOCENT AFRICAN SHANGO'S LIKE ME RIGHT ? YES ! PLUS THE YA NEW IT WILL GET THAT WORK ALL DONE FOR FAMILY ! SO NO NEED FOR THE ATTACKS FAMILY ! HOTEPE ! THE BALL IS AT YA COURT FAMILY ! WHAT EVER YA SAY ! I WILL DO ! BUT WILL WILL FIGHT BACK ANT COVERT ACT OR ACTIONS AGAINST ME RIGHT TILL ? YES ! GUIDANCE STILL FAMILY !
Wait a minute! If I am understanding this correctly; This guy made copies of top secret information and has shared the content of that information with the public and he's not been tried and convicted of breaching national security? Something isn't adding up here. Exploiting sensitive military information is a criminal act which could result in capital punishment depending on the situation. Either the top secret info has been declassified or he's full of shit.
E.PLUMBUS UNUM He did leak the Pentagon papers, which were subsequently published in the New York Times in 1971. I assure you he's not "full of shit."
Why make a comment...when you do not know his background...lol