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DESCRIPTION:The Bomb: Understanding its History and the Hope for a Nuclear-Free 
 Future\n\nHosts: City Lights in conjunction with San Francisco Bay 
 Physicians for Social Responsibility\n\nDate and Time: Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 
 3:00 PM PT\n\nRSVP: 
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-bomb-understanding-its-history-and-the-hope-for-a-nuclear-free-future-tickets-110908436118\n\nSpeakers: 
 \n\nJames L Nolan Jr.\nProfessor of sociology & anthropology, Chair and 
 Washington Gladden 1859 Professor of Sociology at Williams College; author, 
 "Atomic Doctiors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age" 
 (Aug. 2020)\n\nFred Kaplan\nPulitzer Prize-winning journalist; author, "The 
 Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War" (Jan. 
 2020)\n\nDr. Robert Gould\nPresident of S.F. Bay Physicians for Social 
 Responsibility;  Director of Health Professional Outreach and Education for 
 the Program on Reproductive Health at UCSF School of Medicine\n\nDr. Tova 
 Fuller \nVice President of the SF Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility 
 Board, and Chair of the SF Bay PSR Nuclear Weapons Abolition 
 Committee\n______________________________________________________________\n\nCity 
 Lights Booksellers join with the San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social 
 Responsibility to present a commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the 
 bombings that killed over 200,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 
 August 1945. \n\nCity Lights founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti has a special 
 connection to these events. He was a naval commander serving during World 
 War II, and one of few American soldiers to walk on Nagasaki shortly after 
 the bombs were dropped. His experience changed his life and inspired him to 
 start a bookstore with the motto, "Books Not Bombs." \n\nDuring this 
 afternoon of discussion, our panelists hope to assess the events of that 
 time, their impact on the world, and where we stand now, facing the dawn of 
 a new global nuclear arms race that compounds the climate and pandemic 
 threats to human survival. \n\nAt a time when the Nuclear Weapons States 
 possess more than 13,000 nuclear weapons, we will focus on the manifold 
 threats posed by new global programs to expand and modernize nuclear 
 weapons arsenals, the rejection of arms control treaties, as well as the 
 heightened great-power confrontation now accelerating in the Pacific 
 region. \n\nWhile we face our unfolding planetary emergencies, the profound 
 "opportunity costs" of our government planning to spend more than $4 
 million an hour over the next 30 years to potentially annihilate countless 
 millions of people is unfathomable. \n\nOur speakers will also present 
 alternative visions offered by the global movement to abolish nuclear 
 weapons epitomized by the 2017 United Nations' Treaty to Ban Nuclear 
 Weapons, and the prospects for connecting this with wider popular movements 
 seeking to transform our global priorities in the direction of climate, 
 environmental, and social justice necessary for global survival.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/07/18835722.php
SUMMARY:The Bomb: Understanding its History and the Hope for a Nuclear-Free Future
LOCATION:Online
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/07/18835722.php
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