Mordechai Vanunu should receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Daniel Ellsberg said On Thursday, Ellsberg, most famous for his role in the publishing of the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War, said Vanunu deserves the peace prize for revealing Israel’s nuclear secrets in a 1986 interview with a British newspaper, for which he received 18 years in an Israeli jail.
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