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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 3 december 2004 / Time Line December 3, 2004
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12/03/2004
The Center on Terrorism, John Jay College, and CUNY are co-
sponsoring
THE SECOND NUCLEAR AGE: NUCLEAR WEAPONS,THE NEW TERRORISM, AND THE
CULTURE OF FEAR.
Friday, December 3, 2004, 9 am-6 pm, at the CUNY Graduate Center,
NYC.
The focus of this conference is the intersection of nuclear threat
and the new terrorism in the 21st century. It is widely believed
that if Osama bin Laden had had access to nuclear weapons, he would
have ordered one or more to be placed on the planes flying into the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 9/11. Post-9/11 the world
has shifted from more general agreement on reducing nuclear arms to
a new enthusiasm that sees them as key to national security in the
defense of terrorism.
Speakers include Robert Jay Lifton, Richard Falk, Jonathan Schell,
Arjun Makhijani, Susanna Hecht, Andrew Lichterman, Robert Nelson,
David Krieger, Jaqueline Cabasso, Peter Kuznick, Lawrence Wittner, Ervand (Jed)
Abramanian, David Cortright, Sohail Hashmi, Jennifer Simons, Zia
Mian, Leon Sigal, Saul Memendlovitz, James Skelly, Sharon Weiner,
John MacArthur, Charles Strozier, Joseph Masco, Kai Erikson,
Valerie Kuletz, James Borgardt, John Burroughs, Laura Reed, and
Randel Hanson.
Topics cover: Nuclear Weapons, The New Terrorism and the Culture of
Fear; New Species of Weapons; Forms of Resistance and the Anti-
Nuclear Movement; Islam,
The Middle East and Nuclear Weapons; The Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons; The Culture of Fear and Nuclear Weapons; Nuclear Weapons
and the Destruction of the Environment; and Resistance and Survival
in the Second Nuclear Age.
Tickets are $25 and $15 for students.
Advanced registration is suggested.
To register, call (212) 817-8215
More information is available at the Center on Terrorism web
site:
www.centeronterrorism.org
Suggested literature:
Avery, John: Space-Age Science and Stone-Age Politics,
2004.
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