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Vietnam Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam

Memories of the Vietnam Moratorium and how it led to the First Earth Day

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Oct_15,_1969,_Vietnam_Moratorium_Day_in_memory.jpg

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:USC_Daily_Trojan_Sen_Nelson_speech_day_after_first_Earth_Day_.jpg

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_movement

Revelations of how the Vietnam Moratorium may have prevented the use of nuclear weapons

• https://www.strategicdemands.com/doomsday-machine/

StratDem Editor: As one of the initial organizers of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee in Washington DC, this story has special relevance to me. Dan Ellsberg's new book, Doomsday Machine, came to me with a personal inscription and reminder of the role of the Moratorium ...

Daniel Ellsberg: Nixon Almost Took Vietnam War Nuclear In November 1969

Excerpt from Doomsday Machine:

“Nuclear targets were picked.”

Ellsberg speculated that the plans would have gone ahead in November 1969.

Instead, a huge demonstration on Oct. 15, 1969, the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, combined a general strike with nationwide protests and teach-ins.

About 2 million people came out to protest across the country, even “little towns that had never protested before,” Ellsberg recalled.

“Without the Moratorium, there would have been an escalation, possibly the use of nuclear weapons in November 1969.”

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