Lawrence Wittner spoke in Seattle on Sat., Apr. 3, 2010, on "How Peace Activists Saved the World from Nuclear War." -- His talk was filmed by activist Todd Boyle and posted on the website Vimeo.[1] -- Lawrence S. Wittner, 68, is the preeminent historian of the struggle for nuclear disarmament and is the author of a scholarly trilogy entitled The Struggle Against the Bomb (1993, 1997, 2003). -- In 2009, he published an abridgment, Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement. -- He is also the author of Rebels Against War (1969, rev. ed. 1984), Cold War America (1974, rev. ed. 1978), and American Intervention in Greece (1982). -- Wittner's 1967 Ph.D. is from Columbia; he taught for most of his career at SUNY-Albany. --Thanks to Todd Boyle for filming and posting this....
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LAWRENCE WITTNER, SEATTLE, APR. 3, 2010
By Todd Boyle
Vimeo
http://vimeo.com/10681400
Historian of the nuclear age, Professor Wittner spoke on the role of peace activists in preventing nuclear war the past 50 years.
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