Nuclear Policy Experts and Organizations Call on United States to Participate in International Conference on Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear Weapons
FAS President Charles D. Ferguson and Hans Kristensen, Director of the Nuclear Information Project, joined a group of two dozen nuclear policy experts in signing a letter to the Obama administration, urging the participation of the United States in the Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons in Vienna on December 8-9, 2014.
The United States has not attended the last two humanitarian impact conferences. By participating in the conference, letter signatories write that it "would enhance the United States' credibility and influence at the 2015 NPT Review Conference. U.S. participation would also provide support to key U.S. allies and partners, many of which are also urging the United States to send an official delegation."
Read the letter here. http://www.armscontrol.org/files/Letter-to-US-on-Conference-on-the-Humanitarian-Impact-of-Nuclear-Weapons.pdf
Event: The Growing Existential Threat of Nuclear Weapons
The Cold War stimulated the development of a world in which two super-powers confronted each other with tens of thousands of nuclear weapons primed for immediate use. While the international situation has changed, a conceptual framework has yet to emerge that encompasses the current multi-centered reality of nuclear existence. Today, rogue states and non-state entities may be undaunted by the doctrine of mutually assured destruction, that amazingly kept us secure for more than sixty years.
On November 12, 2014, Columbia University's Knowledge, Technology, and Social Systems seminar will host a talk by Professor Edward A. Friedman on the threat of nuclear weapons. The talk will be held at Columbia University's Faculty House and will begin at 7pm.
RSVP: E-mail Jerry Spivack at jspvk@aol.com.
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