2008 Chicago Humanities Festival: "The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race" with RICHARD RHODES
Chicago History Museum, dissabte, novembre 8, 2008 a les 12:30pm
RICHARD RHODES debat Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race.
(NOTE: Tickets $5.00 EA / FREE for Educators & Students)
(LOCATION: Auditorium)
DESCRIPTION: A big idea: E=mc2. An equally big outcome: the six-decade (and counting) global nuclear arms race, with Rhodes as its Gibbon. With his recent Arsenals of Folly, which examines the superpower standoff during the Cold War’s final years, the prolific author has now completed the trilogy on nuclear weaponry that began with the multiple prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Rhodes is an affiliate of Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. He will be interviewed by Kennette Benedict, executive director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. (bookjones)… (més)
(NOTE: Tickets $5.00 EA / FREE for Educators & Students)
(LOCATION: Auditorium)
DESCRIPTION: A big idea: E=mc2. An equally big outcome: the six-decade (and counting) global nuclear arms race, with Rhodes as its Gibbon. With his recent Arsenals of Folly, which examines the superpower standoff during the Cold War’s final years, the prolific author has now completed the trilogy on nuclear weaponry that began with the multiple prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Rhodes is an affiliate of Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. He will be interviewed by Kennette Benedict, executive director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. (bookjones)… (més)
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