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What did Daniel Ellsberg refer Mordechai Vanunu as?

  • "a traitor"

  • "a terrorist"

  • "the preeminent hero of the nuclear era"

  • "a spy"

Answer

Daniel Ellsberg called Mordechai Vanunu "the preeminent hero of the nuclear era". Vanunu was a former Israeli nuclear technician who leaked classified information about Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. Ellsberg, who had leaked the Pentagon Papers to the Washington Post in 1971, was impressed by Vanunu's courage and commitment to peace.
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