In Cambridge-February 25th-How the US Nuclear Weapons Modernization Program Is Increasing the Chances of Accidental Nuclear War with Russia

Thursday,
Feb 25, 4:00pm - 5:30pm (may change to start at 4:30, tba)

Harvard
University, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge - Belfer
Room

Speaker: Theodore Postol, Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology, and National
Security Policy Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: How the US Nuclear Weapons Modernization Program Is Increasing the Chances
of Accidental Nuclear War with Russia

Abstract: The US nuclear force modernization program has been misrepresented to the
American public as a program aimed at increasing the reliability of US nuclear
forces.  In fact, the program is relentlessly aimed at increasing the firepower
of current US nuclear forces.  These activities have not been missed by Russian
military analysts and their political leaders, who have interpreted these
unremitting activities as US preparations to fight and win a nuclear war with
Russia.

At
the same time, political tensions between the US and Russia are rising and
threaten to get more dangerous.  There are also very serious shortfalls in
Russia’s early warning system, and in the morale of US personnel who man US
nuclear forces.  These circumstances have almost certainly led Russian political
leaders to streamline decision-making so Russian nuclear forces could be
launched in the event of an American nuclear attack against
Russia.

These
circumstances greatly increased the danger of a world nuclear catastrophe.

The
status of the current situation will be discussed in this talk, as well as the
global consequences of such an
event.

Sponsored by Harvard Peace Action, Massachusetts Peace Action, and United for Justice with Peace

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