Monday, December 25, 2017

NEWSHOUR BOOKSHELF - "The Doomsday Machine"

"‘Doomsday Machine’ author Daniel Ellsberg says Americans have escaped self-annihilation by luck" PBS NewsHour 12/21/2017

Excerpt

SUMMARY:  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."  Very little has changed, says author Daniel Ellsberg, when it comes to what he calls the immoral and insane policies regarding nuclear weapons.  William Brangham sits down with Ellsberg to discuss the looming danger.

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