[E&E seminars] Tomorrow - George Shultz - Nuclear Tipping Point

[Jameson Twomey]

Nuclear Tipping Point

George Shultz

Friday, October 15

1:00p–2:30 PM

Wong Auditorium, E51<http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E51>

Please join us on Friday, Oct. 15, for a screening of Nuclear Tipping Point and an intriguing public discussion about the global threat of nuclear weapons use in the age of terrorism. George Shultz, who served as secretary of state in the Reagan Administration from 1982 to 1989, will be screening the film here at MIT on Friday, Oct. 15 at 1 p.m. in Wong Auditorium (Building E51), and will take questions from the audience afterward. This event is open to the public, and attendees are encouraged to invite others who would take interest in the conversation.

In 2007, the Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece arguing that the time had come for the world to rid itself of nuclear weapons. The article commanded attention, because its authors — former secretaries of state George Shultz and Henry Kissinger, former secretary of defense William Perry, and former senator Sam Nunn — had given shape to the United States’ national security policies during the Cold War and beyond.

In the new film Nuclear Tipping Point, these four and others explain their strong belief that the rise of terrorism calls for a sea change in the world’s approach to nuclear security. The goal of nuclear deterrence, they argue, must be joined by the overarching goal of nuclear disarmament


About the Speaker

George Shultz has had a distinguished career in government, in academia, and in business. He has held four different cabinet posts, has taught at three of the United States' greatest universities, and was president of a major engineering and construction company. Mr. Shultz held two key positions in President Reagan's administration: Chairman of the President's Economic Policy Advisory Board (1981-1982) and Secretary of State (1982-1989). An alumnus and a longtime friend of MIT, Dr. Shultz earned a PhD in industrial economics from MIT in 1949 and taught here from 1948-1957. He currently serves as the Chairman of the MIT Energy Initiative's External Advisory Board.
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