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Warheads to Windmills: addressing the threats of climate and nuclear weapons before it’s too late
February 29 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Join Veterans For Peace Nuclear Abolition Working Group for a presentation by Dr. Ivana Nikolic Hughes and Timmon Wallis
Thursday Feb 29, 7 pm EST, 6 pm CST, 5 pm MST, 4 pm PST
REGISTER at bit.ly/VFP-Feb-29
Ivana Hughes will speak for 20 minutes or so about climate and nuclear weapons and why both must be addressed with equal urgency.
Timmon Wallis will then speak for 20 minutes or so about building the mass movement that can put an end to these threats.
Followed by questions and discussion.
Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes is President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Chemistry at Columbia University. Dr. Hughes holds a BS with Honors from Caltech, where she studied chemical engineering. Dr. Hughes obtained her PhD from Stanford University, where she was an American Heart Association Pre-doctoral Fellow. She has been a faculty member at Columbia University since 2008 and was awarded the Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award for 2020. Her work on ascertaining the radiological conditions in the Marshall Islands has been covered widely. Dr. Hughes currently serves as a member of the Scientific Advisory Group to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Dr. Timmon Wallis is Executive Director of NuclearBan.US and coordinator of the national Warheads to Windmills Coalition. He has a BA in Human Ecology and a PhD in Peace Studies, and has been writing, teaching and campaigning on the issues of climate and nuclear weapons for many years. His book, Disarming the Nuclear Argument contributed to the negotiations which led to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and earned ICAN its Nobel Peace Prize in 2017. His most recent book, Warheads to Windmills: Preventing Climate Catastrophe and Nuclear War was published in December 2023.