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Watch a sequence from the PBS 2023 documentary, The Movement and the Madman

https://www.pbs.org/video/chapter-1-the-movement-and-the-madman-l6lvfr/

The Movement and the 'Madman'

PBS, PREMIERED MARCH 28, 2023 ON AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

The documentary film tells the little-known story of a dramatic showdown between a protest movement and a president

The Vietnam Moratorium mobilization of October-November 1969 revealed to have stopped Nixon from using nuclear weapons

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The Movement and the 'Madman'

The Vietnam Moratorium mobilization of October-November 1969 is revealed to have politically influenced and stopped US President Nixon from using nuclear weapons

Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

by Daniel Ellsberg

https://www.amazon.com/Doomsday-Machine-Confessions-Nuclear-Planner/dp/1608196704

Excerpts from Doomsday Machine / Published 2017

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

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

Revelations: the Vietnam Moratorium prevented use of nuclear weapons

1969 - “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.”

The Vietnam Moratorium mobilization of October-November 1969 revealed to have stopped Nixon from using nuclear weapons

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Moratorium_October_15_1969.jpg

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

References: Sources via the National Security Archive

(Among US documents retrieved in Freedom of Information request)

A report from September 1969 on prospective military operations against North Vietnam (referred to unofficially within the White House as DUCK HOOK) included two options to use tactical nuclear weapons: one for "the clean nuclear interdiction of three NVN-Laos passes"-the use of small yield, low fall-out weapons to disrupt traffic on the Ho Chi Minh trail. The other was for the "nuclear interdiction of two NVN-CPR [Chinese People's Republic] railroads"—presumably using nuclear weapons to destroy railroad tracks linking North Vietnam and China.

A Kissinger telephone conversation transcript, in which Nixon worried that with the 1 November deadline approaching and major anti-Vietnam war demonstrations scheduled for 15 October and 15 November, escalating the war might produce "horrible results" by the buildup of "a massive adverse reaction" among demonstrators.

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