Daniel Ellsberg, whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers. He also drafted nuclear war plans as a RAND consultant during the Kennedy era. His book about it is The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. 

*This interview is from February 2018. We’re re-airing it to Mark Daniel Ellsberg Week, declared by his friends and supporters to celebrate his life’s work while he’s still living – last month he announced he’d received a terminal cancer diagnosis. 

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