Tributes
My Fifty Years with Dan Ellsberg, Seymour Hersh, 3/8/23, seymourhersh.substack.com
Things to Learn from Daniel Ellsberg, David Swanson, 3/8/23, davidswanson.org
Daniel Ellsberg and the Madness of Nuclear Weapons: Honoring the Wisdom of an Anti-war Hero, by W.J. Astore, Breaking Views, 3/3/23
More Ellsberg Tributes & Obituaries
Podcasts
Nuclear Secrets, a Compost Heap and the Lost Documents Daniel Ellsberg Never Leaked, New York Times podcast, 4/20/23
The Whistleblower: Truth, Dissent and the Legacy of Daniel Ellsberg (podcast series), The GroundTruth Project, April 2021
The Defuse Nuclear War Podcasts with Daniel Ellsberg, directed by Judith Ehrlich, Defuse Nuclear War
Profiles
Pentagon Papers Leaker Weighed Morality of A-bomb at Cranbrook, Months Before Hiroshima, by J.C. Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 8/4/23
Daniel in the Lion’s Den: On the Moral Courage of Daniel Ellsberg, by Erik Baker, The Baffler, 6/17/23
After Terminal Cancer Diagnosis, Daniel Ellsberg Reflects on Leaking Pentagon Papers & His Legacy, Democracy Now, 5/1/23
‘Courage is Contagious’: Daniel Ellsberg’s Decision to Release the Pentagon Papers Didn’t Happen in a Vacuum, by Christian Appy, The Conversation, 5/11/23
A Dying Daniel Ellsberg Talks about Discord and the Power of Leaks, by Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 4/25/23
Speaking Truth to Power: Ellsberg’s Legacy of Courage and Conscience, interview with Christiane Amanpour, CNN, 3/27/23
The Man Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers Is Scared, by Alex Kingsbury – a Q & A with Daniel Ellsberg, New York Times, 3/24/23
“You’ll Be Hearing From Me as Long as I’m Here,” Daniel Ellsberg Vows After Terminal Cancer Diagnosis, by Brett Wilkins, CommonDreams.org, 3/2/23
Daniel Ellsberg Has Foiled Those Who Want Him Confined to the Past, by Norman Solomon, Counterpunch, 4/11/23
Daniel Ellsberg Isn’t Stopping Now, by Sasha Abramsky, The Nation, 3/26/21
The Truth-teller: From the Pentagon Papers to the Doomsday Machine, The Great Transition Initiative, April 2019
A Conversation with Daniel Ellsberg: Reconciling Personal Integrity and Government Service, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, April 10, 2018
Preventing Nuclear War
Daniel Ellsberg’s Message to Us, and to Future Generations, by Martin E. Hellman, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 6/16/23
Living on a Deadline in the Nuclear Age – Some Personal News, by Daniel Ellsberg, Common Dreams, 3/2/23 (original announcement is here)
Daniel Ellsberg Warns Risk of Nuclear War Is Rising as Tension Mounts over Ukraine & Taiwan, Democracy Now, 5/1/23
Warning from Chomsky & Ellsberg, theAnalysis.news, 9/2/22
Daniel Ellsberg on Nuclear War and Ukraine, theAnalysis.news, 6/18/22
Daniel Ellsberg: Putin Is Already Using His Nuclear Weapons, a conversation with Robert Scheer, “Scheer Intelligence,” Scheerpost.com, 4/22/22
Daniel Ellsberg on the Existential Threat of Global Conflict, by Sasha Abramsky, The Nation, 4/22/22
On Nuclear Annihilation and Other Topics: A Talk With Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, by Richard Eskow, CommonDreams.org, 1/21/22
Slash the Pentagon Budget in Half & Abolish ICBMs: Dan Ellsberg on How to Avoid Nuclear Armageddon, Democracy Now, 12/14/22
To Avoid Armageddon, Don’t Modernize Missiles—Eliminate Them, by Daniel Ellsberg and Norman Solomon, The Nation, November 2021
Daniel Ellsberg Is 90 Years Old and Still Causing Trouble, by Charles Pierce, Esquire, 5/24/21
Risk of Nuclear War Over Taiwan in 1958 Said to Be Greater Than Publicly Known, by Charlie Savage, New York Times, 5/22/21
Links to additional media coverage of the Taiwan Straits Crisis story
Daniel Ellsberg on the Creation of Nuclear Doomsday Machines, the Institutional Insanity That Maintains Them, and a Practical Plan for Dismantling Them, by Robert Wiblin and Keiran Harris, 80000hours.org, 9/24/18
Daniel Ellsberg Thinks We’re in Denial About Nuclear War, New York Times Magazine, 2/8/18
Daniel Ellsberg Address at Stanford University on The Doomsday Machine (video), 5/22/18
Daniel Ellsberg Talk at Google: The Doomsday Machine (video), 2/1/18
Daniel Ellsberg Address: The Doomsday Machine, The Commonwealth Club – San Francisco (video), 12/12/17
Daniel Ellsberg on Dismantling the Doomsday Machine, by John Mecklin, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 2/26/18
The Doomsday Machine, AcTVism Interview with Daniel Ellsberg, The Real News Network (video), 10/10/19
Daniel Ellsberg Says Nuclear Winter Is a Very Real Possibility, Unless We Act Now, by Daphne White, Berkeleyside, 1/23/18
Is Nuclear War Inevitable?, by Graham Allison, New York Times, 12/28/17
The Secret History of the Bomb, by Rick Perlstein, Esquire, 11/21/17
Daniel Ellsberg Was a Hero Long Before the Pentagon Papers, by Russ Wellen, Foreign Policy in Focus, 9/11/15
Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
Links to media coverage of the 50th anniversary of the release of the Pentagon Papers
Daniel Ellsberg’s Legacy: Making the Enemy Human, by Robert Koehler, CommonDreams.org, 6/23/23
The Deceit and Conflict Behind the Leak of the Pentagon Papers, by Ben Bradlee, Jr., Washington Post, 4/8/21
Seeing the Pentagon Papers in a New Light, by Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica, 2/3/21
Consider the Source, by Edward Wasserman, Mother Jones, 2/5/21
How Richard Nixon’s Obsession with Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers Sowed the Seeds for the President’s Downfall, by Christian Appy, The Conversation (originally published in Westport News, 4/23/21)
Truth, Dissent, & the Legacy of Daniel Ellsberg: A 50th Anniversary Conference Commemorating the Release of the Pentagon Papers, University of Massachusetts – Amherst, April 30 – May 1, 2021 (video recordings of all sessions)
Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg Speaks on Pentagon Papers, The Massachusetts Daily Collegian, 10/31/19
What the Pentagon Papers Teach Us About Accountability, Freedom Writers Podcast #33, 5/19/19
Daniel Ellsberg on the Release of the “Top Secret” Pentagon Papers (video and transcript), The Real News Network, 6/13/19
Panel on the Pentagon Papers with Gar Alperovitz and Janaki Natarajan, the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at UMass Amherst (video), 10/28/19
Daniel Ellsberg Explains Why He Leaked The Pentagon Papers (audio), Fresh Air, National Public Radio, WHYY-FM, 12/4/17
Daniel Ellsberg – The Original Whistleblower, The Times, 12/9/17
In ‘The Post,’ Democracy Survives the Darkness, New York Times, 12/21/17
Daniel Ellsberg Is Still Thinking About the Papers He Didn’t Get to Leak\, by Andrew Rice, New York Magazine, 11/28/17
The Interview Burns & Novick Missed in ‘The Vietnam War’ Series, “From Protest to Resistance” conference marking the 50th anniversary of the March on the Pentagon (video), 10/21/17
Daniel Ellsberg: The Rolling Stone Interview, Rolling Stone, 11/8/73
Daniel Ellsberg Press Conference Excerpt, 1971 (video) – Ellsberg speaks at a news conference about his indictment, 12/30/71
Secrecy and Whistleblowing
Berkeley Journalism Establishes Whistleblower Program in Honor of Daniel Ellsberg, Berkeley Journalism, 6/26/23
American Prophet: Nearing the End of his Life, Daniel Ellsberg Can’t Be Confined to the Past, by Norman Solomon, Salon.com, 4/15/23
The Pentagon Papers Leaker Explains Why the Supreme Court Draft Leak is a Good Thing, by Vanessa Romo, National Public Radio, 5/11/22
A Conversation with Daniel Ellsberg and Charles Sennott, WGBH Conversation (video), 10/23/19
My Papers at UMass Show How Much Is Concealed From the Public, Scholars, and Congress, Past@Present, 10/28/19
Daniel Ellsberg on the Release of the “Top Secret” Pentagon Papers, Real News Network (video), 6/13/19
He Faced Off with Nixon, See His Advice to Whistleblower, Anderson Cooper 360, CNN (video), 10/1/19
Daniel Ellsberg, Leaker Of Pentagon Papers, Reflects On Current Whistleblower Situation, WGBH (audio), 10/27/19
Ellsberg, Co-conspirators Share Untold Stories Behind Pentagon Papers Leak, Daily Hampshire Gazette (video), 10/28/19
Whistleblowers Preserve American Democracy: A Conversation with Daniel Ellsberg and Marc Steiner (video), Real News Network, 9/25/19
A Conversation with Daniel Ellsberg, George Perkovich, and Natasha Bertrand, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (video), 4/10/18
Daniel Ellsberg and John Dean on Whistleblowing and the Perils of Abusing Power, Open Society Foundations (video), 9/22/09
Decision and Risk
The Dollar Auction, Unendable Wars, and Gambling with Catastrophe, lecture at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts – Amherst (video), 10/29/19
The Ethics and Risks of Threatening Omnicide, Talk at the Annual Friends of the Libraries Reception at University of Massachusetts – Amherst (video), 11/1/19
[Also see Ellsberg’s early papers and lectures on decision-making, written from 1954 to 1971.]
Ellsberg Archive at UMass – Amherst
Lessons from a Whistleblower, University of Massachusetts – Amherst, March 2023
Daniel Ellsberg, Christian Appy: Peace, Democracy And UMass, 06880danwoog.com, 2/7/23
Daniel Ellsberg Receives Honorary Degree from University of Massachusetts – Amherst, 1/22/23
UMass Professor Christian Appy Speaks on the Life and Legacy of Daniel Ellsberg, by Sabrina Ishanyan, Massachusetts Daily Collegian, 11/16/22
The Pentagon Papers and Daniel Ellsberg’s Legacy, by Carla Montilla, Instick Media, 6/13/22
UMass Hosts Daniel Ellsberg Conference: The Truth, Dissent, & the Legacy (about the year-long seminar exploring the Ellsberg archive), Massachusetts Daily Collegian, 5/24/21
UMass to Get Trove of Daniel Ellsberg’s Private Papers, Boston Globe, 9/24/19
The Daniel Ellsberg Collection, UMass Special Collections and University Archives (video), 9/24/19
Historic Collection of Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg’s Life Work Acquired by University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Massachusetts – Amherst, 9/24/19
Ellsberg Engages with Audiences at UMass Amherst, Inside UMass, 10/31/19
Also see Daniel Ellsberg Early Papers, 1954 – 1971 >>