Last month on September 22nd in a speech to the assembled delegates of the United Nations, the president of the United States stood before national representatives of the world and threatened mass destruction — “Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly…”
Category: Daniel Ellsberg
Doomsday Machine
Published 2017 Strategic Demands Editor, Steven Schmidt: It is time to recall my memories of Dan Ellsberg of nearly 50 years ago… From a nondescript building in Santa Monica to a house on the beach in Malibu, from a basketball court in Pacific Palisades to a Parade editor’s tennis court on Sunset Boulevard… My […]
The Movement and the Madman
Nuclear Disaster Averted The PBS ‘American Experience’ documentary film in 2023 brings into light how the 1969 Vietnam Moratorium peace movement acted to prevent President Richard Nixon’s order to use nuclear weapons.


