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When my father
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, a top nuclear war planner at RAND saw “Dr Strangelove” he thought: “This is a documentary. 55 yrs later we are told all these risks have been contained. Yet, refusing to acknowledge threat of “nuclear winter,” Pentagon fails to recognize that
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Robert J. Pechacek🐍🐢🌹🐊
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Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True newyorker.com/news/news-desk As this administraion prepares for war with Iran, remember this. There must be a GOD. @CardinalBCupich @JamesMartinSJ @MaryknollFrsBrs @PaxChristi @RichardRohrOFM @RobertEllsberg #EndWar
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both Russia and US have each constructed a Doomsday Machine, capable of ending human life on earth. What are the odds that this will be indefinitely avoided? Greater than 0? Yet even short of total disarmament this specific risk can be eliminated. Read “The Doomsday Machine.”
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I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
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Glenn Greenwald
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Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92: "We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong" rollingstone.com/politics/polit
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