Word: ellsbergs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Daniel Ellsberg '52, best known for leaking the Pentagon Papers to the press in 1971, predicted that the United States would be the first country to use nuclear weapons if a new war broke...
Citing previous instances when American presidents had threatened the use of nuclear weapons, Ellsberg said Carter's proposed "rapid deployment force" constituted a "nuclear trip wire." Such a force, he said, could easily become surrounded, inducing the U.S. to use tactical nuclear weapons to save...
...Ellsberg, who will speak at Harvard Wednesday afternoon, said only massive anti-war protests prevented former President Nixon from using nuclear weapons against North Vietnam...
...There will be a draft no matter who is elected unless there are a lot more demonstations like this," Ellsberg said. He urged higher pay to attract military volunteers...
...Zinn and Ellsberg drew loud applause when they referred to striking workers in Poland. Zinn called for "continuous revulation--revolutions need to go on and on so long as tyranny exists"--and decried "police states" on both the right and the left...