Daniel Ellsberg

7 Apr 1931 – 16 June 2023

Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7, 1931) is an American economist, activist and former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the *Pentagon Papers*, a top-secret Pentagon study of the U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to *The New York Times*, the *Washington Post* and other newspapers. On January 3, 1973, Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 along with other charges of theft and conspiracy, carrying a total maximum sentence of 115 years. Due to governmental misconduct and illegal evidence-gathering, and the defense by Leonard Boudin and Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson, Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. dismissed all charges against Ellsberg on May 11, 1973. Ellsberg was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2006. He is also known for having formulated an important example in decision theory, the Ellsberg paradox, his extensive studies on nuclear weapons and nuclear policy, and for having voiced support for WikiLeaks, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden. Ellsberg was awarded the 2018 Olof Palme Prize for his "profound humanism and exceptional moral courage." **Source**: [Daniel Ellsberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg) on Wikipedia.

• The Doomsday Machine
• Secrets
• Papers on the War
• Risk, ambiguity, and decision
• The theory and practice of blackmail
• Flirting with Disaster
• Supernerds
• Entwaffnen durch verbreiten der Wahrheit
• Kahn on winning in Vietnam
• Public goods and public bads
• Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
• Some lessons from failure in Vietnam