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Sissela BokPhilosopher, senior visiting fellow at Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies; author, A Strategy for Peace and Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
Bruce BlairGlobal Zero co-founder; former missile launch officer; research scholar at Princeton’s Program on Science & Global Security; author, Strategic Command and Control
John BurroughsExecutive Director, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, Director of the UN office of International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms
Bruce AckermanYale Law School professor, a leading constitutional theorist, author, We the People; named as one of the top 100 global thinkers by Foreign Policy in 2010
Rosa BrooksGeorgetown University Law Center professor and author of How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything
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PRESIDENTIAL FIRST USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS IS IT LEGAL? IS IT CONSTITUTIONAL? IS IT JUST?
William PerryFormer US Secretary of Defense; Institute for International Studies, Stanford University; author, My Journey at the Nuclear Brink.
Jim McGovernUS Congressional Representative, Massachusetts 2nd district; first co-sponsor of Markey-Lieu bill; prominent Congressional voice on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Kennette Benedict Former executive director and current senior advisor of Bulletin of Atomic Scientists; Lecturer at University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy
Zia MianPhysicist; co-director of Princeton’s Program on Science and Global Security; co-chair, International Panel on Fissile Materials; leading expert on India & Pakistan; author, The Nuclear Debate: Ironies and Immoralities
Saturday Nov. 4, 2017 9am - 5pm
Harvard Science Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
A one-day conference, open to the public
Conference Co-Chairs: Elaine Scarry: Harvard University; author of Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom Jonathan King: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Mass. Peace Action nuclear disarmament working groupSponsors: Harvard University’s Mahindra Humanities Center; Harvard’s Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities; Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund; Institute for Peoples EngagementCo-sponsors: Boston Review; Union of Concerned Scientists; Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility; Future of Life Institute; World Beyond War; Mass Pax Christi; Council for a Livable World; American Friends Service Committee; Peace ActionContact/ info: Massachusetts Peace Action • [email protected] • 617-354-2169 • www.masspeaceaction.org/eventsRegistration: Student and general registration is free; supporter donations are accepted.
Hugh GustersonAnthropologist, George Washington University, president of American Ethnological Society; author of books on nuclear weapons as well as Drone: Remote Control Warfare
Seating is limited- Register soon!