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Vietnam Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam

Revelations of how the Vietnam Moratorium may have prevented the use of nuclear weapons

https://www.strategicdemands.com/doomsday-machine/

StratDem Editor:

Moratorium Memories

As one of the initial organizers of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee in Washington DC, and as an old friend of Daniel Ellsberg from those days, his story has special relevance to me.

Dan Ellsberg's 2017 book, Doomsday Machine, came to me with a personal inscription and note from Dan and reminder of the role of the Moratorium ...

Excerpt from Doomsday Machine:

Daniel Ellsberg: Nixon Almost Took Vietnam War Nuclear In November 1969

“Nuclear targets were picked.”

Ellsberg speculated that the plans would have gone ahead in November 1969.

Instead, a huge demonstration on Oct. 15, 1969, the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, combined a general strike with nationwide protests and teach-ins.

About 2 million people came out to protest across the country, even “little towns that had never protested before,” Ellsberg recalled.

“Without the Moratorium, there would have been an escalation, possibly the use of nuclear weapons in November 1969.”

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Steve Schmidt, GreenPolicy360 Founder and Strategic Demands Editor: The peace movement actions in October/November 1969 that grew from our student-led start into the largest anti-war protests in the nation's history were further revealed as impactful in Dan Ellsberg's 2017 book, "The Doomsday Machine".

Although many know of Dan Ellsberg from his role in releasing the history of the Vietnam War, the story that became known as the "Pentagon Papers", his role as a U.S. nuclear war planner is much less known. I knew Dan and I've worked with Roger Morris, formerly of the National Security Council and an aide to Henry Kissinger. The story of how close we came to nuclear war needs to be told again, and remembered. It is a warning of how a president, any U.S. president, sane or not, can order 'first use' of nuclear weapons.

Begin here, with a series of factual warnings about the "Singular Authority" to launch, an authority that needs to be re-thought and re-ordered in sanity and realistic security is to be delivered to today's generation and future life protected. The potential for nuclear weapons accident, miscalculation, mistake, or purposeful intentional use has been a recurring threat, one that if triggering nuclear use or exchange will deliver catastrophe and/or cataclysmic results. The Nixon nuclear episode, reported by Roger Morris about Nixon-Kissinger, of a "signal", a "savage, brutal blow" came too close to reality. Evidently only the the expanse of anti-war Moratorium events, marches, and opposition by the American people prevented the singular decision by an American president.

How do we know a future president will not order nukes to be launched?

Read the series of pieces via Strategic Demands: