Daniel Ellsberg: Americans Have Escaped Self-Annihilation by Luck




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The leaker of the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg. (photo: Reuters) 
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Excerpt: "The military analyst turned whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers looks at the existential threat of America’s nuclear capacities in his new memoir, 'The Doomsday Machine.'"
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