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Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon papers which exposed the government's lies during the Vietnam war is vocalizing a warning. He says the United States is really close to a nuclear Armageddon.
Ellsberg, now 86-years-old, leaked the Pentagon papers back in 1969 and he's now got a new book out which serves a warning to those who care to listen.
According to the Daily Mail, Ellsberg's 7,000-page report was the WikiLeaks disclosure of its time, a sensational breach of government confidentiality that shook Richard Nixon's presidency and prompted a Supreme Court fight that was supposed to advance press freedom.
In his new book, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, Ellsberg details how easy nuclear bombs can be triggered and shot off on a false alarm – and that the president isn't the only who can launch the nukes, as we are often told.
Low-level military commanders are capable of launching nuclear weapons too...
"All out-nuclear war - an irreversible, unprecedented and almost unimaginable calamity for civilization and most life on earth - has been, like the disasters of Chernobyl, Katrina, the Gulf oil spill, Fukushima Daiichi, and before these, World War I, a catastrophe waiting to happen, on a scale infinitely greater than any of these ," writes Ellsberg in his new book.
Adding to fears of a nuclear armageddon is North Korea's insistence on building a nuclear weapon. This has created a mass panic in nations all around the globe. Not to mention, last month, President Donald Trump put North Korea back on a list of state sponsors of terrorism, a designation that allows the US to impose more sanctions and risks inflaming tension over North Korea's nuclear weapons and missile programs.
North Korea then denounced Trump's decision to relist it as a state sponsor of terrorism, calling the move a "serious provocation and violent infringement," as the rogue nation sentenced the US president to death, saying he "hurt the dignity" of the "supreme leadership." All of this is alarming, according to Ellsberg, who believes a nuclear war can be started simply by a false alarm.
Nuclear bombs "are susceptible to being triggered on a false alarm, a terrorist action, unauthorized launch or a desperate decision to escalate," Ellsberg wrote in his book.
"They would kill billions of humans, perhaps ending complex life on earth. This is true even though the Cold War that rationalized their existence and hair-trigger status - and their supposed necessity to national security - ended 30 years ago."
Many US citizens falsely believe that only the US president, in this case, Donald Trump can order the use of nuclear weapons. But Trump isn't the only military commander authorized to launch nuclear weapons, according to the New York Post.
"There has to be a delegation of authority and capability to launch retaliatory strikes, not only to officials outside the Oval Office but outside Washington too," Ellsberg wrote.
Ellsberg says that the only way to avoid a nuclear holocaust is full disarmament by the United States and Russia.
"The risk that one city will be destroyed by a single (perhaps terrorist) weapon in the next year or the next decade cannot, unfortunately, be reduced to zero," Ellsberg writes.
"But the danger of near-extinction of humanity - a continuous possibility for the past 65 years - can be reduced to zero by the dismantlement of most existing weapons in both the United States and Russia."
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The large numbers of useless expected by using nuclear warfare planners is sort of impossible to assume. likewise, the so-called nuclear iciness which may well motive a mass extinction of flowers and fauna. but there may be a simple manner to bring all that all the way down to a personal and completely comprehensible stage. it is a brutally simple intellectual workout, a type of concept test. imagine setting a new child on a barbeque. such a fully horrific idea should be so unthinkable and repulsive that it would be nearly not possible to hold in creativeness for extra than a second. the nauseating sickness of one of these idea makes the direct impact of a nuclear conflict very real. yet, we now not simplest take delivery of this belief passively, however, choose or comply with leaders inclined to do something like this on a scale hundreds of thousands of instances extra. it's miles most effective whilst we reduce the insane idea of nuclear war to a personal level that it turns into reality. every unmarried man or woman with any degree of intelligence and purpose need to reject war intercept, and nuclear war as being as definitely insane as roasting stay new child infants.
Thanks for sharing @zer0hedge
US is telling everyone they bring freedom, but they are the biggest threat to the world.
The system is broken. Greed and selfishness rule our world. Its not only US to blame, but for sure they are doing some shady stuff,m since the early 20's.
The US has spread tyranny for years while espousing the virtues of democracy.
Repeatedly, when a country freely elects a leader, the US supports that until they no longer like the choice, then democracy goes out the window and "regime change" is in order.
@zer0hedge Completely agree with you. They have incredible influence over great deal of nations. We have seen their influence in all shapes and forms throughout the years.
This is just another place in history where the threat has risen to a place where people get worried.The ironic thing was the Iraq invaded Iran and that resulted in around a million dead. A war indirectly sponsored by the biggest terrorists on the planet – the US. Start the US list with Central America (the banana wars) through Asia, (we largely left Africa for our friend and business associates the British), and the Middle East. Where we weren’t overtly we were covertly. Its against international law to stage revolution in a foreign country. The US does it, admits it and the UN, in reality a US/Globalist vassal does nothing, not a peep.
That might be but I dont fear the known nuke threats of NKorea, Iran, and yes the USA.
It is the unknown that is scary. I believe they call it the suitcase nuke. Those who can get a hold of one and just fire it off from anywhere. The fanatics leading a country are watched, it is the unwatched that perilous.
Who really has these things?
Not to even mention the multiple nuclear sights in US that are completely unattended and with 90's technology. Some of them operate with floppy disks...
Excellent writing about Nuclear Armageddon.Most of the man in the world want to peace and happiness.Nuclear bomb is dangerous for whole world if any nuclear bomb blast any where its effected everywhere.so save our next generation we should must stop it,otherwise many innocent people will be die.In the present world new threats of North Korea.North Korea also realize this bad effect .We want to a peaceful world where our next generation save and sound.Thanks to sharing this most important article.
U. S government, has the neuclear weapons to strikes back and am full in support of it. Thanks for sharing this.
Nuclear armageddon isnt worth worrying about. If it happens your toast whether you worried or not.
Unfortunately with recent world events, it doesn't look like the US, Russia or any other Nuclear power will be even thinking along the lines of Nuclear disarmament.
I heard the news that Nuclear bombs "are susceptible to being triggered on a false alarm, a terrorist action, unauthorized launch or a desperate decision to escalate," Ellsberg wrote in his book.
"They would kill billions of humans, perhaps ending complex life on earth. This is true even though the Cold War that rationalized their existence and hair-trigger status - and their supposed necessity to national security - ended 30 years ago."
important information thanks for the sharing @zer0hedge
In fact, a big condemnation of the world with nuclear weapons.
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There is so much disruption in the world for this nuclear weapon. . Thanks so much for sharing the news brother. @zer0hedge
Could easily replace that pic with a pic of Trump also
awesome post @zerohedge
I think the image people have of the US is not the same it was 10 years back.
its likely and possible to survive the blast. but u will die shortly after due to high radiation and lack of food and clean water
Thanks for your USA update news I appreciate your post My friend I always seeing your post @zer0hedge
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Trump is also leading this world again into nuclear world war III. His non serious behavior and every day full of lies statement creating very bad situation day by day for everyone. What can I say?? Before him i think we just have terrorist threat but right now we have nuclear war another threat too. What will happened if he order to attack North Korea and whats will impact ???