[Sci-tech-public] Symposium - Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle: MIT Faculty and Nuclear Arms Reduction - Wed. 5/4/2011

[David Kaiser]

> Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle: MIT Faculty and Nuclear Arms  
> Reduction
> Wednesday, May 4
> 4:00-6:00pm
> E51-345 - click here for map
>
> Speakers:
> Aron Bernstein, MIT Professor Emeritus, Physics
> Alex Wellerstein,History of Science, Harvard University
> Jim Walsh, Research Associate, Security Studies Program, Center for  
> International Studies, MIT
>
> Moderated by Professor Jean Jackson, Professor of Anthropology, MIT
>
>
> On March 4, 1968 a day of protest about the development of multi- 
> warhead missiles (MIRV) was held at MIT.  This event initiated a  
> worldwide movement and led to the formation of
> the Union of Concerned Scientists.
>
> As a contribution to the MIT 150 commemorations, we have organized  
> this symposium to honor and review this part of MIT's history, and  
> to focus on today's no less urgent need to prevent nuclear war.  On- 
> going, urgent concerns include nuclear reactor accidents, nuclear  
> weapons proliferation, and the need to accelerate the global  
> reduction and eventual elimination of nuclear arsenals.
>
> Sponsored by the MIT Faculty Newsletter, MIT Technology and Culture  
> Forum, MIT Program in Science, Technology and Society Program and  
> the MIT Physics Department
>
> This program is free and open to the public; no registration is  
> required.  For more information, please go to <web.mit.edu/tac> or  
> email <weinmann at mit.edu>
>
>


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