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  • SOURCE: New York Times
    4/20/2023

    The Documents Daniel Ellsberg Didn't Leak

    While famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers in 1971, the researcher and activist has revealed that he had another stash of secret papers—about American nuclear war planning—that he felt a duty to publicize. He never did release them, but is committed in his last days to work against nuclear war. 

  • SOURCE: The Atlantic
    12/15/2020

    Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine

    Facebook isn't exactly like they hypothetical "Doomsday Machine" theorized by Cold War nuclear deterrence experts. But its vast scope and capacity to distribute misinformation faster than in can be detected and corrected mean that lessons from the philosophy of nuclear annihilation are apt for understandign the danger of the social media giants. 

  • SOURCE: National Security Archive
    11/5/18

    The Soviet Side of the 1983 War Scare

    Far from being a “non crisis” or a “war scare that wasn’t,” the 1983 US-Soviet confrontation is a profound representation of the “hair trigger” mindset toward which the nuclear arms race can push humanity.

  • SOURCE: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
    8-13-18

    TV and the Bomb

    by Reba Wissner

    Fictional American television shows featured serious topics such as nuclear weapons pretty frequently during the 1950s and 1960s.