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Our Chance to Change the World
By 1982, the Freeze campaign was a phenomenon. Some 370 city councils and 23 state legislatures had endorsed it, 2.3 million people had signed a Freeze petition, and, most significantly, it passed as a ballot initiative in eight out of nine states and in dozens of cities and counties. That constituted the largest single referendum in U.S. history.2 Author John Tirman described the impact: “A large demonstration in Central Park on a sunny summer day and articles in policy journals were one thing, and possibly negligible; thirty-six victories in thirty-nine referendums – including eight of nine states – was something Washington took to heart.”3
Oblivious, Almost
The year 1982 was pivotal for the movement to stop the nuclear arms race, and I was almost oblivious. Almost. Except for a remarkable Australian pediatrician who warned that unless we – I – shook off our indifference, change our life priorities, and work to prevent nuclear war, our chances of survival were slim.
Each of us can do small things with great impact. We embody the “new spirit of patriotism” that President Obama defined in his acceptance speech.
I was a high school junior, and that year’s award-winning documentary, “If You Love This Planet,” was in many ways the precursor to “An Inconvenient Truth.” Labeled “foreign political propaganda” by the Justice Department, it featured a lecture given by pediatrician Helen Caldicott to students at SUNY Plattsburgh and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Short Subject Documentary in 1982. It changed me and thousands of others, the same way that Al Gore’s PowerPoint would later move throngs of young people to action. From there it was a short path for me after college to the doorstep of Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND), based just outside of Boston, Mass., the organization that Helen Caldicott founded in 1981.
By then, Gorbachev was in power in the Kremlin, and there was a chilling number of nucl The painter, draughtsman, graphic artist and sculptor Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain, in 1881 and died in Mougins, France, in 1973. With his creative power and genius, he is one of the most important artists of the 20th century. His stylistic diversity and creative development, which often appears erratic but is nevertheless consistent, is visualised in the special exhibition by means of 60 of his works. All of the loans come from the private collection of former gallery owner Helmut Klewan, who now lives in Vienna. Pablo Picasso's graphic oeuvre is the most extensive left behind by any artist in the last century. Picasso created his first etching at the age of 18. From then on, he passionately experimented with different printing techniques until he was very old, constantly reinventing himself. The exhibition's most striking groups of motifs are sheets on the themes of ‘Artist and Model’, ‘Portraits’, “Scenes on the beach” and “Myths: Minotaur and Faun”. Studio scenes with artist and model as well as nudes in various poses are recurring themes in his work. The levels of meaning are multi-layered and dependent on the respective biographical circumstances. What unites them is the reflection on the role of the artist and his relationship to the model. However, Pablo Picasso's numerous portraits are mostly based on his imagination and less on modelling sessions. Particularly often he portrayed his female partners. The Klewan Collection includes portraits of Marie-Thérèse Walter, Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot and Jacqueline Roque. Among the portraits on display in the exhibition are those of the art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard and of the poets Max Jacob, Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Éluard. Another frequent subject is the `bull-man´ Minotaur. In the 1930s, he became the centre of Picasso's private mythology, which is impressively demonstrated in his work through numerous drawings, prints and paintings up until the 1 Video: Watch Full Session Panelists: Video: Watch Full Session Panelists: Video: Watch Reception Over 100 alumni, professional staff, and friends of CNS gathered Friday evening, 4 December, in the Monterey Institute’s Samson Student Center to renew friendships and to usher in the Center’s third decade. The Center’s house band, the U-23Jive, provided live entertainment for the event. Monterey Peninsula actors presented a passionate reading of Reykjavik, a new play by Pulitzer-prize winning author Richard Rhodes. Reykjavik is a two-act play by Richard Rhodes based on the historic summit meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev held at Reykjavik, Iceland, in October 1986. The two leaders came as close at that meeting as any world leaders have yet done to agreeing to pursue the elimination of nuclear weapons. Reykjavik explores their arguments for doing so, and the reasons they were unable ultimately to agree. It’s a history play in the tradition of A Walk in the Woods, Copenhagen and the recent Frost-Nixon, with a limited set of characters and maximum fidelity to the facts. The dialogue and action are based on the original transcripts, both Soviet and U.S., of the proceedings. The characters include Reaga Retrospect starting 2004
CNS 20th Anniversary Celebration: The Power and Promise of Nonproliferation Education and Training
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Session 8: Educating the Public: The Role of Foundations, NGOS, and the Media
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Reading of Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Rhodes’ new play “Reykjavik”
Lecturers and Advisors
Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science andInternational Affairs, Harvard University; Author, Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe Kelly Sims Gallagher, Editor, Acting in Time on Energy Policy Thomas S. Blanton, is Director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University in Washington D.C. Amb. William Luers, is a 31-year veteran of the US Foreign Service and the former President of the United Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA) Naila Bolus, Executive Director, Ploughshares Fund; former Co-Director, 20/20 Vision Steven E. Miller, is Director of the International Security Program, Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly journal, "International Security" and also co-editor of the International Security Program's book series, Belfer Center Studies in International Security Matthew Bunn, Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Former Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence at the U.S. Department of Energy Dr. Antonia Chayes, is a visiting Professor of International Politics and Law for the Fletcher School of International Affairs at Tufts University and is a lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University Josh Rubinstein, Northeast Regional Director, Amnesty International USA; Co-Editor, The KGB File of Andrei Sakharov Joseph Cirincione, Author, Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons William H. Tobey, Former Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, National Nuclear Security Administration, US Department of Energy Dr. Avner Cohen, author of Israel and the Bomb, is Senior Research Fellow at the National Security Archive. Formerly served as co-director of the Project on Nuclear Arms Control in the Middle East for the Security Studies program at