I finished reading Ellsberg autobiography, Secrets. He was not after Nixon, he was after Nuclear Bombs. We owe our lives to that sane man, if it wasn't for him, we could be closer to the moment when some dimwitted "head of state" pushes the red button.
Do not talk about, talking to god, please, when I heard George W. Bush telling us that non-sense, fear went up my spine.
We need heads of state that know that we are six billion people and growing and that now we have the means to destroy most life on Earth. Irrationality at those high levels of decision is hazardous to our health.
From the NYT today:
"“The Indian relationship is a very important one,” said Mr. Nunn, who influenced Mr. Obama’s decision to endorse a goal of ridding the world of nuclear weapons. But he said that during the Bush years, “I would have insisted that we negotiate to stop their production of weapons fuel. Sometimes in Washington, we have a hard time distinguishing between the important and the vital.”"
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