> > > Massachusetts Institute of Technology > > Laboratory for Nuclear Security and Policy Seminar Series > > “The Nuclear Disarmament Movement, Its Effectiveness, and Where It Stands > Today” > > Dr. Lawrence S. Wittner > Professor of History Emeritus > State University of New York at Albany > Author of The Struggle Against the Bomb and Confronting the Bomb > > > MIT Dept. of Nuclear Science & Engineering > Wednesday May 14, 2014 > The Kolker Room, Building 26-414 > > 12:00 – 2:30 PM > Light Lunch at 12:00 PM > Talk starts at 12:30 PM > > How should we explain the fact that there has been a surprising degree of > nuclear restraint since the atomic bombings of 1945? Not only has nuclear > war been averted, but over three-quarters of the world’s nuclear weapons have > been destroyed and the vast majority of the world’s nations have chosen to > forgo developing nuclear weapons. The explanation for these developments > lies primarily in a massive public campaign to curb the nuclear arms race and > avert nuclear war. Now that even former and current government officials > have come around to supporting the creation of a nuclear weapons-free world, > public pressure could provide the crucial factor in bringing it to fruition. > >
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