The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex

Dr. Helen Caldicott
Founder of Physicians for social Responsibility
Nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize
Founder of Nuclear Policy Research Institute

This event took place on April 24, 2003 in the Chevron Auditorium, International House, UC Berkeley.

Addressing her new book by the same name, world-renowned antinuclear activist Dr. Caldicott looks at the indebtedness of the current Bush administration to the nuclear arms industry and warms of the enormous dangers inherent in allowing weapons manufacterers to dictate foreign policy. Now, with unprecedented acts of terrorism fueling the American public's willingness to grant its government broad powers to wage war, the constant pressure from weapon makers for the use of military force poses a very real threat of nuclear conflict. Enumerating the medical consquences of such a war, Caldicott demonstrates conclusively that the notion of nuclear survival is a fantasy, and that nuclear victory is an oxymoron.

Just as a generation embraced Caldicott.s hugely influential Nuclear Madness and Missle Envy, The New Nuclear Danger stands to educate, altert, and mobilze millions of young people and concerned citizens, helping them to understand the planetary threat posed by an aggressive nuclear weapons industry in a volatile world.