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Secrets of the Dead: The Man Who Saved the World.

Revolutionize Your Mind
Published on Nov 11, 2012

This film explores the dramatic and little-known events that unfolded inside a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
While politicians sought a solution to the stand-off, Vasili Arkhipov, an officer aboard the submarine, refused to fire a nuclear torpedo,
thus averting disaster. The program combines tense drama with eyewitness accounts and expert testimony about a critical event during the Cold War.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VPY2SgyG5w

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Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on Trump and North Korea

The former cold war hawk talks about Snowden, Nixon and the chances of avoiding a nuclear catastrophe

Edward Luce December 9, 2017

I am half-expecting an invalid to turn up. Daniel Ellsberg’s publisher had emailed a week before to say he had been suffering from laryngitis, needed rest, and that his energy tended to flag early. They asked if I could bring the lunch forward to before noon. I could hardly blame Ellsberg, now 86, for wanting to cut our engagement short.

Shortly after I take a seat at our table, a sprightly, besuited man wanders in. The only hint of infirmity is a large pink hearing aid protruding from his left ear. I rush to help Ellsberg with his coat. It takes a while to disentangle him. “I got this in Moscow when I visited Edward Snowden,” he says, as if apologising for the garment. The moment we are seated, he asks a waiter for chamomile tea with honey. “I need it for my throat,” he says. Several times over lunch he explains he cannot talk for long. “My voice is going very fast,” he says. It begins weakly but grows steadily more animated. Two hours later he is still talking.
https://www.ft.com/content/c7f058bc-d9b5-11e7-a039-c64b1c09b482

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Daniel Ellsberg Reveals He was a Nuclear War Planner, Warns of Nuclear Winter & Global Starvation