Daniel Ellsberg has done it again! 50 years after his courageous whistleblowing release of the Pentagon’s secret Vietnam War history, The Pentagon Papers, he has again shaken the nation and the world with a new revelation. It has critically important implications for the new Cold War confrontation with China and the debate over the possibility over Congress or the  the Biden Administration adopting a No First Use nuclear policy.

For more than 60 years the government has kept secret its 1958 willingness to completely sacrifice Taiwan in order to save it. During that Taiwan crisis, the Eisenhower administration prepared and threatened to attack China with nuclear weapons. Ellsberg’s revelation demonstrates that Eisenhower and Dulles were willing to accept a retaliatory Soviet nuclear attack on Taiwan following U.S. nuclear bombing of China.

As the U.S. and China ratchet up tensions over Taiwan, Ellsberg asserts that the Pentagon must again be debating the possibility of sacrificing Taiwan and its people to save them.

Join us for our webinar with this brilliant and courageous American hero!  Moderated by Joseph Gerson.  Register to attend.

Daniel Ellsberg served as consultant on nuclear planning and command and control for the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations.  Ellsberg is best known for precipitating a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of the U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War. Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage Act  along with other charges, carrying a total maximum sentence of 115 years. Because of governmental misconduct and illegal evidence-gathering his conviction was dismissed. He has since been a leading analyst and nonviolent activist. His books include: Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, and The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner.

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