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>In the spring of 1961, when he was thirty,

Ellsberg drafted the top-secret operational plans for general nuclear war issued by McNamara to the Joint Chiefs of Staff...

Ellsberg believed that he was never charged with possessing the nuclear papers because senior government officials,

unaware that the documents had been washed away, feared that he would leak them...

"They were afraid that, if they charged me, I would release it all," he said,

referring to President Richard Nixon and his national-security adviser, Henry Kissinger.

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I'm reminded of the satirical Cold War farce film when thinking of

Dr. Strangelove : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb : https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dr_strangelove

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/