Famed whistelblower Daniel Ellsberg joins us to discuss his new book on the ‘omnicidal’ dangers of nuclear weapons, ‘The Doomsday Machine.’ Ellsberg’s personal history, including his father’s connection to the US military-industrial complex and Daniel’s time at RAND. How Ellsberg took more classified material than the Pentagon Papers as insurance. The Strangelovian reality of ‘Dead Hand’ mechanisms and how they could spell global apocalypse. The shocking casualness Ellsberg noticed in his time as a nuclear war planner. What Ellsberg would say to Trump or any president could he brief them. The change needed in our collective consciousness in addressing the proliferation of nukes and decommissioning of doomsday machines.

For members: Journalist James Risen on The Majority Report on Feb 22, 2006.

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