On this edition of Your Call, we revisit our conversation with whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.
The United States has spent decades building a "doomsday machine" – nuclear firepower that could wipe out humanity. In his new book, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, Ellsberg documents the development of the US nuclear war plan and the flaws that make the system so unstable and dangerous. What can be done to defuse this deadly system, which is on a hair-trigger?
Guest:
Daniel Ellsberg, author of The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, and the whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers
Web Resources:
The New York Review of Books: The Nuclear Worrier
Argus Courier: Daniel Ellsberg to discuss the end of world in Petaluma
Aeon: The Deterrence Myth
Independent: Donald Trump is more sinister than Richard Nixon, says Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg
