2020/10/27 zoom webinar 12noon-1:30pm EDT
 Biden or Trump: What’s at Stake on November 3?

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Global Peace and Insecurity: A Seminar Series

Fall 2020: Tuesdays: 12noon-1:30pm US EDT (12-13.30)

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27: Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MIT and Professor of Linguistics, University of Arizona

 Biden or Trump: What’s at Stake on November 3?

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2020/10/20 zoom webinar 12noon-1:30pm EDT
The Bang and the Bucks: Post-9/11 Military Spending and the Shortchanging of Other

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Global Peace and Insecurity: A Seminar Series

Fall 2020: Tuesdays: 12noon-1:30pm US EDT (12-13.30)

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20: Heidi Peltier, Ph. D, Director, 20 Years of War Project, Boston University

The Bang and the Bucks:  Post-9/11 Military Spending and the Shortchanging of Other Urgent Needs

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2020/10/13 zoom webinar 12noon-1:30pm EDT
Accidents, mistakes and COVID-19: Risks and Necessity of High-Level Biosafety Labs

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Global Peace and Insecurity: A Seminar Series

Fall 2020: Tuesdays: 12noon-1:30pm US EDT (12-13.30)

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13: Monica Zoppe, Ph. D., Institute of Biophysics, Italian National Research Council (CNR), Milan, Italy

Accidents, mistakes and COVID-19: Risks and Necessity of High-Level Biosafety Labs; MODERATOR: Professor Jonathan King

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2020/10/12 zoom webinar 12:00 – 17:30 CEST
Webinar: Weapons in Space – Challenges to Peace and Security

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Invitation INES Webinar on Weapons in Space – Challenges to Peace and Security 12 October, 16:00 – 17:30 CEST With: Prof. Jürgen Scheffran (University of Hamburg, Germany) Prof. em. Dave Webb (Leeds Beckett University, U.K.) Subrata Ghoshroy (MIT, USA)   Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__s5nreJXQQKp0p9q-bbTXw Introduction: When President Trump established the U.S. Space Force December, 2019, he said that it marked “a big moment” and that there was “going to be a lot of things happening in space. Because space is the world’s … Continue reading →

2020/09/19 zoom conference
International Action Meeting For a Nuclear Free Europe

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Introduction & Context

September 19th, 2020  | 11:00 am – 17:00 pm |
De Markten, Oude Graanmarkt 5, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Since the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago we have lived under the threat of nuclear annihilation. This omnicidal power and the outrageous amount of resources spent on it is unacceptable, especially at a time where climate change is challenging our survival. The COVID-19 pandemic and the recession which will follow, teach lessons we must embrace to overcome the existential threats of the 21st century: nuclear war and global warming. Continue reading →

2020/01/07+14+21 Massachusette, USA
THE POLITICS OF DEFENSE SPENDING

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SCIENCE, PROFIT AND ENDLESS WARS
Tuesdays: January 7, 14 and 21
5:00pm
MIT Room 2-105

The US federal government spends billions of dollars each year on highly questionable warfare and unnecessary anti-missile systems that don’t work.

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Irresponsible Science?

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Dear friends and colleagues I’m writing to let you know about Scientists for Global Responsibility’s latest in-depth report – which I’ve attached as a pdf. It’s called: ‘Irresponsible Science? How the fossil fuel and arms industries finance professional engineering and science organisations’ SGR_IrresponsibleScience.pdf The report was published earlier this month and received coverage in, for example, ‘The Sunday Times’.* It reveals an extensive pattern of financial links between the arms and fossil fuel industries on the one hand, and some … Continue reading →

An anti-satellite test ban is urgently needed

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A little over two weeks ago, India successfully test-fired an interceptor rocket that shot down a live satellite. In a surprise television address, India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, then triumphantly declared that India was now the fourth country to acquire the ability to shoot down satellites, after the United States, Russia, and China. The test’s success clearly demonstrates the advancement of India’s military capabilities in outer space. But how much of an advancement is it, in reality? In terms of … Continue reading →