The Nuclear Crisis, Why We Are in Denial and What to do About it November 8th
October 26, 2017
Little has changed since Stanley Kubrick made his legendary film “Dr. Strangelove” in the 1960s, and most people still accept – if not love–the bomb. Nukes are presented as security, as a deterrent. Yet accidents, miscalculations, and superpower escalations like the Cuba missile crisis have constantly reaffirmed the dangers of accidental, intentional, or unintended uses of nuclear weapons.
How do we empower a movement to end the madness of potential omnicide? The current U.S. administration’s rhetoric toward Iran and North Korea shows the US as an unsafe actor with a trigger-happy Commander in Chief who has the power to start World War III, which might result in a Nuclear Winter.
Join the Peace Studies Department on Wednesday, November 8 at 2:30 p.m. in Argyros Forum 211 to hear Nigel Young, a Research Professor in Peace Studies and Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Colgate University, New York.