“The Doomsday Machine”: Confessions of Daniel Ellsberg, Former Nuclear War Planner
Daniel Ellsberg was best known for leaking the Pentagon Papers, but he was also a lifelong anti-nuclear activist, stemming from his time working as a nuclear planner for the U.S. government. In December 2017, he joined us to discuss his memoir, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. “This was an actual war plan for how we would use the existing weapons,” he noted, “many of which I had seen already that time.”
Transcript: democracynow.org
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Hard to Imagine Ellsberg passed on at 92 but Kissinger is still alive at 100
@firefly4907
Жыл бұрын
Evil is sticky.
@wnklee6878
Жыл бұрын
Warmongers live longer.
@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns
Жыл бұрын
Kissinger might not have been drinking the blood of children, but he might as well have been.
@SpaceyMonkey75
Жыл бұрын
The truly damned cling to life like few others.
@s_africanchannel4810
Жыл бұрын
He gets new stem cells every day😂😂😂
We are heading for this right now. And planned by the same kind of people.
A true hero, an intelligent, thoughtful gentleman with only peace in mind, not war. You were a good man Mr. Ellsberg.
@MrBehindTheScenes_
5 ай бұрын
what happened to him
@KohalaLover
5 ай бұрын
@@MrBehindTheScenes_ He passed on.
Yet another brilliant interview 👏
Ike wanted a plan. He didn't plan to use it but he was a military man. His warnings to the American public about the military industrial complex on his departure from office before JFK took over showed his true colors. His tenure at the helm can be respected today.
@nemanjastankovic4439
11 ай бұрын
Yes I agree in that , if only US had people of such integrity today. Eisenhower would be very angry to say the least watching this avoidable war in Ukraine. Not to mention all US recent wars.
Daniel ELLSBERG HERO OF TRUTH. 💯Thank you for your service. 💯
A true hero.R.I.P Your bravery will be read and studied throughout history. R.I.P. Mr. Ellsberg.
@MrBehindTheScenes_
5 ай бұрын
what happened to him
Question!? Who is the most dangerous country in the world!?
@hansfrankfurter2903
Жыл бұрын
Americans: the countries we are nuking.
@s_africanchannel4810
Жыл бұрын
Waiting for the comments
@nickrich56
11 ай бұрын
Never trust Russia 🇷🇺🤬
@KenTaylor-qs8mi
11 ай бұрын
All of them
Thank you 🌎 ✊️ 🗽 🌹
It was about two days ago, I learned of this man from the (*free with ads) movie that you tube here suggested called: 'Our Nixon'. The historical context impressed upon me is monumental. The film of the interviews and press statements with this man -from the day of the Pentagon papers- are not so absorbing or interesting; as they are profound.
RIP Mr. Ellsberg.
Just pure insanity
In 1991 when the USSR went tits up, the threat of nukes never really went away through the 90s because old Soviet nukes could’ve fallen into the wrong hands. We still had nuclear (capable) bombers flying about in the UK, and a fleet of nuclear subs mooching about. It wasn’t until the 2000s when they scrapped most of this stuff I finally felt safe. Then 9/11 happened!
@robertrichard6107
Жыл бұрын
That was a panic, I remember watching SKY News announcing Bldg. 7 had collapsed with Bldg. 7 still standing behind the reporter.
@hansfrankfurter2903
Жыл бұрын
That's interesting if true, it puts a different spin on why 9/11 happened in the first place.
This man is a true hero. R.I.P Sir
Wow! This is scary stuff
❤ Daniel Ellsberg ❤
600 million deaths immediately, and 9 billion estimated deaths due to the following Nuclear Winter.
C'est Tragique ❤❤❤
Wow
🎶Boom goes London 🎵There goes Pairee 🎶 Let's drop the big one🎵See what happens?!
@janetbratter1
Жыл бұрын
Ah, a Randy Newman fan…I’ve sung it many time in New Orleans clubs and in DC places…generally makes the audiences uncomfortable till I explain what satire is…here’s a bit more…boom goes London, boom Paree, more room for you more room for me..they all hate us anyhow so let’s drop the big one now….and every city the whole world round will be just another American town…so let’s drop the big one now. I think Randy must have seen that grim 1959 film “ On the Beach”.
Rest in Piece Daniel
This is a great example of how read and keeping your mind working helps you stay sharp. He looks elderly but mentally he is all there. So inspiring. Also, he's a real one for letting us all in on this
Eternal Rest grant him O God, And may perpetual light shine upon him.
AAA+++Bedford, Texas
Permanent peace after nuclear war when no humans left to fight each other.
@robertrichard6107
Жыл бұрын
We think we're so smart, but we're sophomores, being the youngest species on the planet.
@brandyheng
Жыл бұрын
@@robertrichard6107 Churches are screaming "The Second Coming"
@brandyheng
Жыл бұрын
@@robertrichard6107 Russia has moved some Nuke to Belarus Biden warning of Putin’s using tactical nuclear weapons is ‘real’ The writing is on the wall Either we are blind or illiterate
war is murder
Well!! Thanks a lot Bast-- for NOT stopping any of THIS. Sure Your probably dead now- the rest of Us are still living in this putrid soup!
FREE JULIAN ASSANGE HERO FROM BELMARSH PRISON UK 🇬🇧.
Amy Back in Black And Justice for All
Ellsberg was a Hero too, like Assange, While the Planner's and Profiteer's ,the Ruler's of the Governments that Wage Wars and even Consider Nuclear War are Stark Raving Mad Monsters that should be Put in Straight Jackets and Mental Facilities, if Humanity and Life in General is to Survive. The Planner's of these Wars don't believe they and their Loved One's will Suffer a Horrible Enf, no they 'll be Safe in their Bunkers while Everyone Else is Burnt to Death. What are these Anti Human Life Forms? They Surely Can't be Human Beings? The Villainy, The Heartless Criminality. Maybe a World Ruled by such Monsters does'nt Deserve to Survive.
FREE DANIEL HALE HERO FROM USP MARION ILLINOIS USA 🇺🇸.
Who's to say that's no longer the plan, How few people can destroy all those mum's and dad's brother's and sister's, That's evil, and it just may have happened in the past.
@robertrichard6107
Жыл бұрын
Biden's Nuclear Posture Review includes First Use Contingency Plan, it was finally made public late fall of 2021, as he was warning us of Russia 'Invasion'😮
Non-Anglosaxon people, know your enemy!
When the wind blows.
@5:40... And the heavens shall depart as a scroll ... their eyes will be burnt from their sockets... Nature perfectly ironic... the mushroom as the great decomposer. 😅😅 Have a happy day
Noomo, this is a good time to return and decomission these Temehu, because it is clear that they are too diabolical to live peacefully on this planet.
America is playing God. 👹😡🤡👹
As we speak Pres. Biden has called out the Chinese government- after a convivial visit from the secretary of state, Antony Blinker.
And Trump had access to the nuclear football.
@robertrichard6107
Жыл бұрын
Soul launch authority has to be officially stopped, Especially with brain dead presidents like Byedon walking around thinking he's a foreign policy whiz.
@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns
Жыл бұрын
Trump was probably the least scary President in that regard because he has no real religious beliefs and he only cares about making money. Thermonuclear war would be bad for business. Reagan was far more dangerous and it took them to make _The Day After_ in 1983 for him to confront the horrifying realities of thermonuclear war.
@KohalaLover
Жыл бұрын
Terrifying. The wicked adore the wicked. Trump thinks Putin walks on water.
@SkankHunt-iz1nl
11 ай бұрын
And Biden is more of a risk at using it
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Ehat i tell u that there spirt nothing good do this criminals brung to the table
KZread seems to autoplay into this propagandist no matter what I watch before.
17,000 views in a few days Safe to say Democracy Now is a walking corpse
Stop talking about! Hit the button!
@nickrich56
11 ай бұрын
💥
@majorchutzpah7265
11 ай бұрын
@@nickrich56 Yes!