Description: Schedule and list of attendees for a FLI-organised conference at MIT in May 2017 aiming to reduce the threat of accidental or intentional nuclear war.
The growing hostility between the US and Russia -- and with North Korea and Iran — makes it more urgent than ever to reduce the risk of nuclear war, as well as to rethink plans to spend a trillion dollars replacing US nuclear weapons with new ones that will be more suited for launching a first-strike. Nuclear war can be triggered intentionally or through miscalculation -- terror or error -- and this conference aims to advocate and organize toward reducing and ultimately eliminating this danger.
This one-day event includes lunch as well as food for thought from a great speaker lineup, including Iran-deal broker Ernie Moniz (MIT, fmr Secretary of Energy), California Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Lisbeth Gronlund (Union of Concerned Scientists), Joe Cirincione (Ploughshares), our former congressman John Tierney, MA state reps Denise Provost and Mike Connolly, and Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons. It is not an academic conference, but rather one that addresses the political and economic realities, and atte
8:45 AM - Registration and coffee