U.S. nuclear threats and, here, here, here
U.S preemptive strike on, here
war fighting strategy against, here, here
world conquest premise, here, here, here, here
at WWII end, here
Spaatz, General, here
Spain, here, here, here
Spark Plug procedures, here
special access programs (SAPs), here
special intelligence (SI) clearance, here
Speer, Albert, here, here, here
Sputnik, here
SS-6s and SS-7s, here
SS-9s, here, here
Stalin, Joseph, here
Stanley, Timothy, here, here, here
Stimson, Henry L., here, here, here, here, here, here
St. Paul (ship), here
“Strains on the Fail-Safe System” (Ellsberg), here
Strategic Air Command (SAC)
alert levels and notification of, here
Berlin crisis and, here, here, here
command and control preservation and, here
Cuban missile crisis and, here, here
delegation of authority to, here, here
Doomsday Machine and, here
drill rehearsals, here
early mission of, here
Execute order authentication and, here, here
headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
launch control locks disabled by, here
LeMay and, here, here, here
missile gap and, here, here
Nixon and, here, here
nuclear weapons carried by, here, here
Power and, here
retaliation power of, here
second-strike ability, here
Soviet attacks on, theoretical, here
as specified commander, here
vulnerability of, here, here, here
war planning, here, here, here, here, here, here
strategic bombing, here, here, here, here, here
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, Star Wars), here
strategic nuclear weapons, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
“Strategic Objectives and Command Control Problems” (Ellsberg), here
strategic warning, here
Strauss, Lewis, here
striking second first, here
submarine-launched missiles (SLBMs). See also Polaris submarines and missiles; Trident sub-launched missiles
deterrence of nuclear attack with, here
Doomsday Machine and, here
hard-target-kill capability of, here, here
land-based ICBMs compared to, here
Reagan’s confusion about, here
Soviet, here, here, here
USAF warheads and vehicles and, here
submarines, Soviet, here, here
Suez crisis, here, here, here
Super bomb, here, here, here, here. See also H-bombs
super-fuzes, here
surface-to air missiles (SAMs), here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Sweden, here
sweep conflagration, here
Szilard, Leo, here, here, here, here, here
Szulc, Tad, here
Tactical Air Warfare School, here
tactical bombing, here
tactical nuclear weapons, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
tactical warning, here, here, here, here
Taiwan, here
Taiwan Straits Crisis (1958), here, here, here
Talent (T) clearance, here, here, here
Taylor, Maxwell, here, here, here, here, here
Teller, Edward
atmospheric ignition and, here, here, here, here
on deaths caused by nuclear weapons, here, here
hydrogen bomb development and, here, here, here
omnicide denial by, here, here
terror bombing, here, here
terrorism, here, here
theater commanders, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
“Theory of the Reluctant Duelist” (Ellsberg), here
thermonuclear war, here, here, here, here, here
thermonuclear weapons. See also H-bombs
A-bombs replaced by, here, here
death estimates for, here
false alarms and, here
firestorms caused by, here
Manhattan project and, here
Mark 28, here, here, here
omnicide and, here (See also omnicide)
produced by U.S. and Soviet Union, here
SAC planes and, here
Soviet satellite launches and, here
Super, here
testing of, here, here
Thirteen Days (film), here
Thirteen Days (R. Kennedy), here, here
Thirty Years’ War, here
Thompson, Edward P., here, here
Titan II accident, here
Titan missiles and engines, here, here, here, here
Tokyo, Japan, here, here, here, here
firebombing of, here, here, here, here, here
Great Kanto earthquake and fires in, here
Toon, Brian, here
Top Secret designation. See also Manhattan Project; Pentagon Papers
BNSP, here
cage at CINCPAC headquarters, here
clearance for, here
clearances higher than, here, here, here, here, here
Cosmic, here
Ellsberg’s copying of documents with, here
intelligence estimates, here
loss of documents with, here
memo to Nitze, here, here
“President’s Eyes Only” document, here, here
at RAND, here, here
war planning, here, here, here, here, here
totalitarianism, here, here
total war, here
tree-trimming incident, here, here
Trenchard, Lord, here, here, here, here
Trident sub-launched missiles, here, here, here, here
Trinity test, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Trinkl, Frank, here
Truman, Harry S.
aid to Greece, here
atmospheric ignition and, here
atomic bombs and, here, here, here, here, here, here
B-29s deployed by, here, here
bombing of civilians and, here
distrust of civilian commanders under, here
Ellsberg’s admiration of, here
H-bomb development and, here, here
LeMay and, here
Soviet Union and, here
Truman Doctrine, here
Trump, Donald J.
climatic consequences of nuclear war and, here
decision-making by, here
Doomsday Machine and, here, here
first-use threats and, here, here
Iran nuclear deal and, here
Minutemen missile replacement, here
modernization program for strategic nuclear weapons and, here
nuclear option and, here, here, here, here, here
Perimeter system and, here
Tuchman, Barbara, here
Turgidson, Buck (fictional character), here, here, here
Turkey, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
two-man rule, here, here, here
Tyuratam test site, here, here
U-2s
photography, here, here
shot down over Cuba, here, here, here, here, here, here
shot down over Russia, here, here
in Soviet airspace, and near disaster, here
special access programs, here
U-235 (uranium isotope), here
Ulam, Stan, here, here
Ulbricht, Walter, here
unauthorized action, here, here, here, here, here
uncertainty, decision-making under, here, h
ere, here, here, here
U.N. Charter, here
United States
air force build up, here
blind bombing, here
bombing of civilians by, here, here
Britain and, in WWII, here
climatic consequences of nuclear war and, here
command and control preservation, here, here, here, here
Doomsday Machine of, here, here, here, here
Dresden attacked by, here
first strike or first use by (See first strike or first use by U.S.)
focus on deterrence of attack by Soviet Union, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
heavy bombers and, here
Japan’s relationship with, here
nuclear policy, here, here, here, here
nuclear war planning (See nuclear war planning, U.S.)
strategic bombing and, here
as terrorist nation, here
treaty banning nuclear weapons and, here
war planner beliefs, here
Western Europe, commitment to defense of, here
in WWII, here
U.N. Resolution 36/100, here
uranium, here, here, here, here
U.S. Congress, accountability of, here
USSR. See Soviet Union
U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey for the Pacific War, here
Vienna Summit, here, here
Vietnam, here. See also North Vietnam
Vietnam War
demonstrations against, here
documents related to, here, here, here (See also Pentagon Papers)
Ellsberg’s work on, here, here, here
Johnson and, here
MLK and, here
Nixon and, here, here
nuclear weapons suggested for, here, here
resistance and understanding, here, here
Rostow and, here
Vonnegut, Kurt, here
vulnerability studies, here, here, here, here
Wannsee Conference (1942), here
war fighting concept, here
Warsaw, Poland, here
Warsaw Pact, here, here, here, here
war terminating goals, here, here
Washington command post and Cuban missile crisis, here
Watson, Tom, here
Western Europe, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
West Germany, here, here, here
Wheeler, Earle, here
White House, criminal misconduct by, here
Whole World on Fire (Eden), here
Wilkes, John, here, here
Wilson, Charles, here
The Wizards of Armageddon (Kaplan), here
Wohlstetter, Albert, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Wohlstetter, Roberta, here
Wolfowitz Report, here
Woodward, Bob, here
Working Group on Presidential Command and Control, here
World War I, here, here, here
World War II
American bombers produced for, here
change in consciousness and, here, here
Cold War following, here (See also Cold War)
Nazi enslavement danger and, here
Rostow and flow of oil during, here
Russia’s level of destruction in, here
Soviet Union at end of, here
strategic bombing and, here, here
thermonuclear bombs compared to those used in, here, here, here, here
Xuan Thuy, here
Yarmolinsky, Adam, here, here, here, here, here, here
Yarynich, Valery, here, here
Yokohama, Japan, here
York, Herbert, here, here, here
Zinn, Howard, here
A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
In 1961, Daniel Ellsberg, a consultant to the Department of Defense and the White House, drafted Secretary Robert McNamara’s plans for nuclear war. Later he leaked the Pentagon Papers. He lectures and writes on the dangers of the nuclear era and the need for whistle-blowing. A Senior Fellow of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Ellsberg is the author of Secrets and the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary The Most Dangerous Man in America. He is also a key figure in Steven Spielberg’s upcoming film about the Pentagon Papers, The Post, scheduled to be released in December 2017. He lives in Kensington, California, with his wife, Patricia.
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