A special side-benefit of the war in Ukraine: talk of Russian nukes in Belarus and of U.S. nukes in Ukraine, Greece, Japan, etc.
Worst case ever of learning the wrong lessons?
In May 2022, World BEYOND War will be holding a weekly discussion each of four weeks of Sleepwalking to Armageddon: The Threat of Nuclear Annihilation
with the author Helen Caldicott as part of a small group WBW book club
limited to a group of 18 participants.
We will send each participant a
hardcover or kindle or nook copy of the book. We'll let you know which
parts of the book will be discussed each week along with the Zoom
details to access the discussions.
Click here to sign up in time to receive and read the book!
When: For one hour on four Tuesdays, May 3, 10, 17, and
24, 2022. The time is 1 a.m. Pacific, 4 a.m. Eastern, 9 a.m. in London,
10 a.m. Central European, 12:30 p.m. in Tehran, 6 p.m. in Sydney, and 8
p.m. in Aukland:
Where: Zoom (details to be shared upon registration)
This is a small group series with limited space of up to 18 people.
Sign up to reserve your spot and allow for enough time to receive the
book. We look forward to reading and discussing this important book with
you!
About the Book:
A frightening but necessary assessment of the threat posed by nuclear
weapons in the twenty-first century, edited by the world’s leading
antinuclear activist.
“Dr. Helen Caldicott has the rare ability to combine
science with passion, logic with love, and urgency with humor.” —Naomi
Klein
With the world’s attention focused on climate change and terrorism,
we are in danger of taking our eyes off the nuclear threat. But rising
tensions between Russia and NATO, proxy wars erupting in Syria and
Ukraine, a nuclear-armed Pakistan, and unsecured stockpiles of aging
weapons around the globe make a nuclear attack or a terrorist attack on a
nuclear facility arguably the biggest threat facing humanity.
In Sleepwalking to Armageddon, pioneering antinuclear
activist Helen Caldicott assembles the world’s leading nuclear
scientists and thought leaders to assess the political and scientific
dimensions of the threat of nuclear war today.
Chapters address the size and distribution of the current global
nuclear arsenal, the history and politics of nuclear weapons, the
culture of modern-day weapons labs, the militarization of space, and the
dangers of combining artificial intelligence with nuclear weaponry, as
well as a status report on enriched uranium and a shocking analysis of
spending on nuclear weapons over the years.
The book ends with a devastating description of what a nuclear attack
on Manhattan would look like, followed by an overview of contemporary
antinuclear activism. Both essential and terrifying, this book is sure
to become the new bible of the antinuclear movement—to wake us from our
complacency and urge us to action.
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Check out and go ahead and sign up for future book clubs in more coming months. They're all at different times of the day, convenient to different parts of the globe.
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