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Daniel Ellsberg Warns of 'No Survivors' in Nuclear War

Daniel Ellsberg says nuclear war with North Korea would wipe out South Korea and Possibly L.A. or San Francisco.
An atomic bomb was donated at a Nevada test site 75 miles northwest of Las Vegas in 1951. It was understood that about 1,500 soldiers were on the ground at a safe distance from the blast.
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Daniel Ellsberg is best known as the defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers and exposed Defense Department lies about American involvement in the Vietnam War. But in 1971, when he took those top secret documents out of his office safe at the Rand Corp., he also took a cache of materials related to his job as one architect of America’s mutually assured destruction nuclear strategy, or MAD.

He hid the top-secret nuclear papers in plastic bags on his brother’s farm in upstate New York, intending to reveal them after the furor over the Pentagon Papers died down. But Tropical Storm Doria in 1971 eroded the hiding place, and he

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