Daniel Ellsberg in conversation with Robert Scheer at Live Talks Los Angeles
Current nuclear risk is driven by systemic factors (false alarms, modernization, 'less bad' survival delusion) rather than just individual leader psychology; Ellsberg notes the US and Russia are spending ~$1.2 trillion otakeawayNorth Korea lacks the arsenal for 'nuclear winter' (only 40-60 fission weapons like Nagasaki), so a war with them would be a regional disaster without global climatic effects, unlike a US-Russia conflict.takeawayThere is a bipartisan push for confrontation with Russia; Ellsberg criticizes both Trump's unpredictability and Hillary Clinton's 'no-fly zone' proposals in Syria as potential triggers for direct US-Russia armed conflicttakeaway














