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There Should Be At Least One Leak Like The Pentagon Papers Every Year.

It's Naive And Even Irresponsible For A Grownup Today To Get Her Or His Information About Foreign Policy And War And Peace Exclusively From The Administration In Power. It's Essential To Have Other Sources Of Information, To Check Those Against One's Own Common Sense, And To Form Your Own Judgment As To Whether We Ought To Go To Or Persist In War.

Every Attack Now Made On Wikileaks And Julian Assange Was Made Against Me And The Release Of The Pentagon Papers At The Time.

There Are Some Things That Should Not Be Leaked Without Authorization.

My Activities, For Which I Gratefully Accept This Award, Are Today What They Have Been For Over Thirty-five Years And Will Be For The Rest Of My Life: To Counter Governmental Secrecy About The Nuclear Arms Race That Threatens The Survival Of Life On Earth; And To Help Build A World Movement That Will Prevent A First Use Since Nagasaki Of Nuclear Explosions, Prevent Or End Interventions That Could Lead To Such An Event, And Bring About A World Free Of Nuclear Weapons.