2024/04/11 USA 7pm EDT
What can we learn from Oppenheimer, Einstein, and past campaigns to resist nuclear destruction?
| We hope you can join us for an online discussion about the past and future of resistance to nuclear weapons!
On April 11th at 7pm EST, Peace Action New York State (PANYS) will host a Zoom conversation, “Oppenheimer, Einstein, and Resistance to Nuclear Weapons — the Full Story” together with two leading peace and justice historians: Lawrence Wittner and Blanche Wiesen Cook. |
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| Two new popular films — Oppenheimer and Einstein and the Bomb — have brought nuclear weapons and the scientists who developed them to the forefront of the public consciousness in recent months. However, these films have stopped short of exploring the public warnings by Oppenheimer and Einstein about the grave dangers to human survival in the nuclear age and about their efforts to create a nuclear weapons-free world. Furthermore, it’s important to give appropriate credit to the vast public nuclear disarmament campaign that, in the years after 1945, succeeded in curbing the nuclear arms race and preventing nuclear war. Faced today with a revival of the nuclear arms race and new threats of nuclear annihilation, it’s time to examine the struggles of the past and consider what might be done to end the nuclear menace in the future.
Join us for a discussion led by Lawrence Wittner, Professor of History Emeritus at SUNY Albany, a longtime peace activist and author of numerous books and hundreds of articles on peace and foreign policy issues including Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement (Stanford University Press). He will be joined by moderator Blanche Wiesen Cook, also a longtime peace activist and a Distinguished Professor of History and Women’s Studies at John Jay College and the CUNY Graduate Center. More information about the historians is included below.
All proceeds from ticket sales for this event will benefit Peace Action New York State and our advocacy work.
We hope you can join us!
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