This piece originally appeared in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Article Highlights Lawrence Wittner’s 2009 book, Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, has an overarching message that will surprise even nuclear policy experts, because…
Year: 2012
Thirty Years Ago Today, at the Nuclear Freeze Rally in Central Park, We Saved Ourselves From Ourselves
This article appeared in the Huffington Post. On June 12, 1982, 30 years ago today, perhaps as many as one million people gathered in New York City’s Central Park. They demanded the removal of the “nuclear sword of Damocles,” that…
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A Memorandum to the Participants of the 2012 Guadalajara Model UN Charter Review Conference
On April 26-27, 2012, more than 500 students gather in Guadalajara Mexico for a “Model UN Charter Review Conference.” Unlike traditional “Model UN’s,” which simulate the operations of today’s United Nations (which was invented in 1945 to address the challenges…
Posted in Abolishing War
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