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Former Pentagon official Daniel Ellsberg '52, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, yesterday alleged that the United States "would not hesitate to use nuclear weapons in the event of a large scale war," and urged Harvard students to consider non-traditional means of achieving political goals when normal channels are insufficient...
...United States initiation of nuclear war is a very urgent possibility, and quite probably the biggest public threat of your lifetime," Ellsberg told a group of about 40 students in the Adams House junior common room...
...Ellsberg, who left his Pentagon position to protest the Vietnam War and later leaked the contents of a secret history of the war to the New York Times, said that the U.S. simply does not have the non-nuclear capabilities to fight a large scale war, and within days would resort to nuclear weapons...
...Ellsberg criticized the belief that the U.S. is reluctant to initiate nuclear warfare, which he called a "cultural bias." "We have done so in the past, and have come very close to doing so many times since," he said...
Predicting that "arms would be a safe investment" whether Carter or Reagan were elected, Ellsberg warned of the militaristic path which he believes both candidates are following...