Nuclear Survivalist

… California, and consulted for the Defense Department and the White House on nuclear weapons, nuclear war plans and crisis decision-making.

He was active in campaigns to prevent nuclear arms proliferation and drew upon his history in government for the 2017 book “The Doomsday Machine: …

Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked Pentagon Papers exposing Vietnam War … White House on nuclear weapons, nuclear war plans and crisis decision-making.

“His argument was, there’s always been a huge taboo about strategic nuclear war for a good reason, because strategic nuclear war ends in mutually …

In 2017, he published a massive tome about the nuclear threat seen from the inside, titled “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War …

Ellsberg later was a prominent free speech and anti-Iraq War activist, … House on nuclear weapons, nuclear war plans and crisis decision-making.

In the months since his diagnosis, he continued to speak out urgently to the media about nuclear dangers, especially the danger of nuclear war …

… the media about nuclear dangers, especially the danger of nuclear war posed … Richard Nixon came to office in 1969 promising to end the war, …

The Vietnam War and civil-rights protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s … on nuclear weapons, nuclear war plans and crisis decision-making.

… would result from a nuclear war, a war he felt was all but inevitable. … Obst helped Ellsberg put together a book called Papers on the War.