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DESCRIPTION:Join Bill Hartung and the War Industry Resisters Network during the 
 September 16 – 22 international week of action for this in depth look 
 inside the nuclear weapons lobby. Find out why the current massive nuclear 
 weapons buildup and modernization proceeds unhindered despite the threat 
 that it poses to the U.S. itself by increasing the danger of nuclear 
 holocaust — to say nothing of the vast resources that are diverted to the 
 nuclear weapons industry.\n\nIn this webinar, Bill Hartung lays out some of 
 the key components of this nuclear buildup (a new generation of nuclear 
 armed bombers, missiles and submarines), such as the new Intercontinental 
 Ballistic Missile, the Sentinel, as documented in his recent report for the 
 Quincy Institute. He then peers behind the curtain to examine the numerous 
 ways that the companies that get the contracts to produce new nuclear 
 weapons actually shape U.S. nuclear policy in conjunction with government 
 bureaucracies, members of Congress, and key communities that derive 
 economic benefits from the perpetuation of this nuclear-industrial 
 complex.\n\nThe combination of the influence of members of Congress whose 
 states host the big contractors, vast campaign contributions to members of 
 Armed Services Committees, the revolving door between Congress and the 
 contractors, and armies of contractor lobbyists make up a formidable engine 
 of support for these new weapons and a U.S. nuclear posture based on them. 
 For instance the 11 major contractors for the new Sentinel ICBMs currently 
 employ 275 lobbyists, the vast majority of whom come from influential 
 positions in government.\n\nDon’t miss this opportunity to take this deep 
 dive inside the nuclear weapons lobby and to consider the struggle over our 
 nuclear policies  between special interests and the public 
 interest.\n\nWilliam D. Hartung is a Senior Research Fellow at the Quincy 
 Institute. He focuses on the arms industry and US military budget and was 
 previously the director of the Arms and Security Program at the Center for 
 International Policy and the co-director of the Center’s Sustainable 
 Defense Task Force. He is the author of Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin 
 and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex (Nation Books, 2011) and 
 the co-editor, with Miriam Pemberton, of Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the 
 Next War (Paradigm Press, 2008).  And Weapons for All (HarperCollins, 1995) 
 is a critique of US arms sales policies from the Nixon through Clinton 
 administrations.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/09/02/18869070.php
SUMMARY:Webinar: Profiteers of Armageddon: Inside the Nuclear Weapons Lobby
LOCATION:Online\nhttps://masspeaceaction.org/event/profiteers-of-armageddon-inside-the-nuclear-weapons-lobby-with-bill-hartung/
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/09/02/18869070.php
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