Daniel Ellsberg

Biographic Data

ID324377
NAMEDaniel Ellsberg
GIVEN NAMESDaniel
FAMILY NAMEEllsberg
SIGNATUREELLSBERG D
AFFILIATIONSRAND Corporation
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS25
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1954
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX3

  • The original whistleblower

    Open AccessMark Frary, Daniel EllsbergARTICLEIndex on Censorship2021

  • Secrecy and National Security Whistleblowing

    Daniel EllsbergARTICLESocial research2010Cited by: 3

    The promise to keep "secrets of state," once demanded and given, becomes virtually part of one's core identity. In the national security apparatus, one's pride and self-respect is founded in particular in the fact that one has been trusted to keep secrets in general and trusted with these particular secrets. I suggest that there are psycho-social aspects of promises made under these circumstances—bearing on self-image and self-respect, as well as…

  • American Planning for a Hundred Holocausts

    Open AccessDaniel EllsbergARTICLEJapan focus2009

    This is the first installment of Daniel Ellsberg's personal memoir of the nuclear era, “The American Doomsday Machine.” The online book will recount highlights of his six years of research and consulting for the Departments of Defense and State and the White House on issues of nuclear command and control, nuclear war planning and nuclear crises. It further draws on 34 subsequent years of research and activism largely on nuclear policy, which foll…

  • Building a Better Bomb

    Open AccessDaniel EllsbergARTICLEJapan focus2009

    It was a hot August day in Detroit. I was standing on a street corner downtown, looking at the front page of The Detroit News in a news rack. I remember a streetcar rattling by on the tracks as I read the headline: A single American bomb had destroyed a Japanese city. My first thought was that I knew exactly what that bomb was. It was the U-235 bomb we had discussed in school and written papers about, the previous fall

  • The Third Wave's Third Way

    Open AccessAlvin Toffler, Richard Sennett et al.ARTICLENew Perspectives Quarterly2008

  • Secrets

    Lawrence D Freedman, Lawrence Freedman et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs2003Cited by: 9

  • Call to Mutiny

    Daniel EllsbergARTICLEMonthly Review1981Cited by: 3

    "It has never been true that nuclear war is 'unthinkable.' It has been thought and the thought has been put into effect." E.P. Thompson refers here, in the brilliant and moving essay that opens this volume, to the deliberate destruction of the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. What he does not mention is that the Americans who conceived and ordered this project, like those who prepared it and carried it out and the great majority o…

  • Protest and survive

    Edward P Thompson, Dan Smith et al.BOOKProtest and survive1980

  • Papers on the War

    Milton Osborne, Daniel EllsbergARTICLEPacific Affairs1973

  • Risk, Ambiguity, and the Savage Axioms

    Daniel EllsbergARTICLEThe Quarterly Journal of Economics1961

    I. Are there uncertainties that are not risks? 643. — II. Uncertainties that are not risks, 647. — III. Why are some uncertainties not risks? — 656.

  • Recurrent Objections to the Minimax Strategy

    Daniel EllsbergARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1959

  • A Final Comment

    Daniel EllsbergARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1958

  • "Classic and Current Notions of "Measurable Utility

    Daniel EllsbergARTICLEThe Economic Journal1954Cited by: 10

    Journal Article Classic and Current Notions of "Measurable Utility" Get access D. Ellsberg D. Ellsberg Cambridge, England. Cambridge, Mass Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 64, Issue 255, 1 September 1954, Pages 528–556, https://doi.org/10.2307/2227744 Published: 01 September 1954