Daniel Ellsberg on dismantling the doomsday machine | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Daniel Ellsberg on dismantling the doomsday machine | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: More than 45 years after he became famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers and earning the wrath of President Richard Nixon and his plumbers, Daniel Ellsberg is again a focus of public consciousness. The hit movie The Post reprises part of the Pentagon Papers story, reminding older Americans (and explaining to younger viewers) how Ellsberg’s decision to reveal a top-secret history of duplicitous US policy in Indochina changed the course of the Vietnam War and American history.