{"id":238479,"date":"2023-07-03T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=238479"},"modified":"2023-07-03T13:34:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T12:34:12","slug":"the-doomsday-machine-confessions-of-daniel-ellsberg-former-nuclear-war-planner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/07\/the-doomsday-machine-confessions-of-daniel-ellsberg-former-nuclear-war-planner\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Doomsday Machine&#8221;: Confessions of Daniel Ellsberg, Former Nuclear War Planner"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div id=\"info-container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\"><strong><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string bold\" dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/logo-democracy-now.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-173623\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/logo-democracy-now.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\"><strong><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string bold\" dir=\"auto\">1 Jul 2023<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\">As we remember Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who died in June, we look at how 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,<em> The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner.<\/em> \u201c<em>This was an actual war plan for how we would use the existing weapons,\u201d<\/em> he noted, <em>\u201cmany of which I had seen already that time.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;The Doomsday Machine&quot;: Confessions of Daniel Ellsberg, Former Nuclear War Planner\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/snF2FeRiIJo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong><em>Daniel Ellsberg was a former US military analyst<\/em><\/strong><em> who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon Papers, which revealed how the US public had been misled about the Vietnam War. He passed away on 16 Jun 2023. RIP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Jul 2023 &#8211; As we remember Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who died in June, we look at how he was also a lifelong anti-nuclear activist, stemming from his time working as a nuclear planner for the U.S. government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[2299,1126,260,1050,1301,112,2289,70,1594,481],"class_list":["post-238479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-daniel-ellsberg","tag-hegemony","tag-history","tag-imperialism","tag-nuclear-war","tag-pentagon","tag-pentagon-papers","tag-usa","tag-war-economy","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238479"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238483,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238479\/revisions\/238483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}