Rob Lamb

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7,220 appearances 31 recordings 4 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 2d ago

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Stuff To Blow Your Mind · From the Vault: The Devil You Know, Part 1 · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

Uh and these papers were published by the New York Times in nineteen seventy one. voice-verified

This would be a decade after the publication regarding the Ellsberg paradox. voice-verified

And yeah, they detailed secretive elements about the the scope of the US military efforts in Vietnam, the real sticking points being the uh deception involving the Gulf of Tonkin incident. voice-verified

unreported expansion of the war, the true objective of the war post-1965, which basically was more about containing China and preventing a humiliating US defeat rather than any like specific uh objectives to uh help the people of Vietnam, and the lack of a clear plan for victory as well. voice-verified

So I imagine a lot of you have at least heard of the Pentagon Papers, even if you're not familiar with the full story, because this incident, uh, this led to conspiracy and espionage charges against Ellsberg that were then later dismissed. voice-verified

Uh greatly fueled the anti-war movement as well as distrust in the government at the time, and led to the Nixon White House's use of the infamous White House plumbers to discredit Ellsberg. voice-verified

And of course, voice-verified

all of this ends up feeding into the Watergate scandal, which uh is another one of those major historical touchstones from the time period that uh again, if you're not super familiar with Watergate, you've at least heard of Watergate and you've heard about the other, you know, different gates out there that um that allude back to what a scandal it was. voice-verified

matter how deserving or or undeserving. voice-verified

Now Ellsberg remained an outspoken activist and whistleblower throughout his life, uh particularly um regarding the US's military actions uh under multiple presidents, including the pro the current one, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and uh also in support of various other whistleblowers. voice-verified

Uh he was a vocal opponent of the use and the threat of nuclear weapons. voice-verified

and the rhetoric around their use. voice-verified

And he is sometimes described as a nuclear war planner turned nuclear war activist. voice-verified

And his work at the RAN Corporation did involve such contemplations. voice-verified

Yeah, one of his major overarching criticisms of nuclear weapons, and and I feel like we're probably preaching to the choir on this one. voice-verified

I can't imagine we have any big nuclear war fans out there, um, was that their use as a deterrent, one of the major positive spins that are often given about having a vast nuclear arsenal. voice-verified

Uh, this idea of the nuclear deterrent was itself highly unreliable and unstable. voice-verified

There were simply too many. voice-verified

Many variables, human, technological, situational, that could lead to not only catastrophic but existential unintended consequences. voice-verified

By the way, Ellsberg has been portrayed, I believe, twice in major motion pictures, once by James Spader and once by Matthew Reese. voice-verified

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