The Bomb Project: Special Announcement: 11/13 Helen Caldicott: New Nuclear Danger (Wed)

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11/13 Helen Caldicott: New Nuclear Danger (Wed)

Cambridge Forum
3 Church Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
http://www.cambridgeforum.org

Internationally renowned anti-nuclear spokesperson, Dr. Helen
Caldicott,
discusses "The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military
Industrial
Complex" at Cambridge Forum, Wednesday, November 13th, 7:30 p.m. at
First
Parish, 3 Church Street, Harvard Square, in Cambridge. A
book-signing
will follow the lecture and discussion.

Moments after the September 11th attacks, the U.S. Department of
Defense
was dangerously close to a nuclear launch. With the majority of the
American public left in the dark, the Defense Department went on
Defcon 2,
its second-highest state of alert, ready to launch thousands of
weapons.
Though the end of the Cold War was supposed to bring the threat of
nuclear
war to an end, Caldicott contends that the threat has reappeared with
the
policies of the current Bush administration. Indebted to arms
manufacturers like Lockheed Martin, whose best interests are served by

aggressive weapons spending, the United States government is fostering

worldwide nuclear proliferation. Are we closer to a nuclear crisis
than we
think?

For 30 years, Dr. Helen Caldicott has been at the forefront of the
anti-nuclear movement. The former director of the Physicians for
Social
Responsibility (the U.S. chapter of the Nobel Prize-Winning
International
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War) and a Nobel Prize
nominee,
her previous books include the landmark "Nuclear Madness" (Norton,
1978,
revised 1994) and "Missile Envy" (Morrow, 1984). Both the Smithsonian
Institute and Ladies Home Journal named her one of the most
Influential
Women of the Twentieth Century.

Cambridge Forums are free and open to the public. Open discussion
follows
speaker presentation. Events are taped and edited for public radio
broadcast throughout the nation. Edited cassettes are available to the

public by contacting 617-495-2727. Select lectures can be viewed in
their
entirety on-line on the WGBH Forum Network at streams.wgbh.org/forum.
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