The Importance of Being Uncertain About War

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Daniel Ellesberg was an academic at Harvard who wrote a dissertation on decision making. He felt the real horror of war when he heard about bombing of Rotterdam, Warsaw and Pearl Harbor. The New York Times began to serialize all the secrets that he had been passing on to them in June 1971. President Richard Nixon took out an injunction to stop publication but it ended up being overturned by the Supreme Court.

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