National Conference Saturday, December 13, 9:30-5:30 Kay Chapel, American University, Washington, DC
9:30 Welcoming-Peter Kuznick, Professor of History, Director, Nuclear Studies Institute, American University; Author, Beyond the Laboratory
9:45- Noon Beneath the Mushroom Cloud John Dower, Ford International Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Author of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner) Robert Jay Lifton, Visiting Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Coauthor, Hiroshima in America Paul Boyer, Merle Curti Professor of History Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Author, By the Bomb's Early Light James Carroll, Columnist, Boston Globe; Author, An American Requiem (Winner of the National Book Award) Sunao Tsuboi, Survivor of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima; Secretary General, Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-Bomb Sufferers Organizations Martin Sherwin, Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History, Tufts University; Author, A World Destroyed
Noon-1:00 Lunch
1-3:15 Preventing Nuclear War: The Lessons of History Gar Alperovitz, Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy, University of Maryland, College Park; Author, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb Lawrence Wittner, Professor of History, State University of New York, Albany; Author, The Struggle Against the Bomb, volumes 1-3 Philip Brenner, Professor of International Relations, American University; Coauthor, Sad and Luminous Days: Cuba's Secret Struggle with the Superpower after the Missile Crisis Seymour Hersh, Author, The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House; Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist; Martin Harwit, Former Director of the National Air and Space Museum Kai Bird, Author, The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, Brothers in Arms
3:30-5:30 The Current Global Nuclear Threat: Terrorism, Proliferation, and Bush Administration Policy Frank von Hippel, Co-Director, Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University, and Former Assistant Director for National Security in the White House Office of Science and Technology Natalie Goldring, Chair, Board of Directors, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and Executive Director, Program on Global Security and Disarmament, University of Maryland, College Park Dan Ellsberg, Author, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers Herbert P. Bix, Professor of History and Sociology, Binghamton University; Author, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, (Pulitzer-Prize winner) Charles Weiner, Professor Emeritus, History of Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Arjun Makhijani, President, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (invited)
5:30-5:40 Concluding Remarks - Peter Kuznick
SPONSORED BY THE COMMITTEE FOR A NATIONAL DISCUSSION OF NUCLEAR HISTORY AND CURRENT POLICY and AMERICAN UNIVERSITY'S NUCLEAR STUDIES INSTITUTE
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