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In-Person
Seminar

Does Nuclear Disarmament Activism Work? Global Advocacy in Local Politics

Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

Across the United States, anti-nuclear weapons activists are taking their arguments to towns, cities, and states. But nuclear weapons policy falls within the purview of the highest and most classified levels of the federal government. What then do attempts at localizing disarmament politics aim to achieve, and are these efforts effective? 

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Date: Time: - Location: One Brattle Square, 350

Speaker
Stephen Herzog

Nuclear Free Zone Sign
Berkeley 1986 Nuclear Free Zone Sign

Speaker: Stephen Herzog, Visiting Scholar, Project on Managing the Atom

Across the United States, anti-nuclear weapons activists are taking their arguments to towns, cities, and states. But nuclear weapons policy falls within the purview of the highest and most classified levels of the federal government. What then do attempts at localizing disarmament politics aim to achieve, and are these efforts effective? 

This presentation offers insights into the underlying thinking and efficacy of recent grassroots efforts to ban the bomb in the United States. It does so by drawing upon original research conducted with a range of qualitative and quantitative methods.

Admittance is on a first come–first served basis. Tea and Coffee Provided.