Good afternoon. My name is george perkelvich and im going to talk a little as people enter the room. Its good to see you all here. Our topic today is the legality of Nuclear Deterrence. This is not a topic that you tend to find on Cable Television political shows or on op ed pages or in president ial debates, where probably if youre lucky at your summer bar bar becues, but it is an important topic. One of the reasons the question of the legality of Nuclear Deterrence is so important and often underappreciated, is that the women and men whose job it is to carry out nuclear operations, to manage our Nuclear Weapons and conduct operations with them, they understandably need to know that what they might be asked to do is considered legal and legitimate. And in many ways, obviously, society ohs them that kind of del deliberation. So its a quite important topic and its also, obviously as well hear, not so simple. The legality of deterrence may be distinguishable from the legality of using Nu
Rain across central, southern and south eastern areas. Slowly moving north. You will notice its becoming more fragmented. It is gradually turning lighter as this afternoon wears on. Meanwhile, High Pressure building in across the north west, that will bring some fine and settled condition, probably the best of the sunshine across western scotla nd of the sunshine across western scotland but sunshine breaking out gcioss scotland but sunshine breaking out across southern parts of wales and england. Still some heat and humidity around. Temperatures around the mid to upper 20 celsius which could spark off heavy and thundery showers. Noticeably cooler than the last few days across the north sea coasts. This evening and overnight, there will be a legacy of cloud, some still thick enough for a bit of light rain and drizzle through central portions of the uk but most places dry and skies will clear gcioss places dry and skies will clear across the north of the uk, temperatures dipping down to
Boundaries, that become beyond the nation and become cosmopolitan and an example was Nuclear Power play plant explosions. I was writing on cosmopolitanism and at this time the Fukushima Nuclear disaster happened. And that altered how i was going to talk about cosmopolitanism in my research and i did work on publications feeling with fukushima and helping with the 35th anniversary conference here with three mile island and it was just an uncanny coincidence that i find myself working at a campus location close to three mile island having studied fukushima so thank you everyone for being here. And i want to at this point introduce our keynote speaker, Arnie Gundersen. So Arnie Gundersen is the chief engineer and a member of the board of directors for the nonprofit fair winds energy education, founded by his wife, maggie. An Energy Advisory with more than 47 years of Nuclear Engineering experience, mr. Gundersen earned his bachelor of science degree in Nuclear Engineering from polytech in
Of a life of Frederick Douglass written in 1845 it describes his childhood years on Eastern Shore of maryland, his time as a slave in baltimore and his escape north. Our guest is a historian and author. Watch books that shaped america weeknights at nine eastern on cspan or go to cspan. Org books that shaped america to view the series and learn more about each book featured. Abraham avi loeb is a franklin baird junior professor of science at Harvard University, the longestserving chair of Harvard Department of astronomy, the founding director of Harvard Black hole initiative, director of the institute for theory and computation, itc, within the Harvard Smithsonian center for astrophysics. He also heads the galileoeo project, chairs the Advisory Committee for the breakthrough star shot initiative, and is former chair of the board on physics and astronomy of the national academy. Author of eight books booe than 1000 scientific papers, he is elected fellow of the American Academy of arts a
hello and welcome to the programme. as celebrations to mark the coronation of king charles enter the final day, people across the uk are taking part in community events. the big help out is urging britons to take on volunteering roles and members of the royal family have been dropping in on some of the projects. charlotte gallagher reports. after the glitz and glamour of the coronation concert, today s celebrations come down to earth. scouts and their volunteer leaders are just some of the thousands of people taking part in the big help out. and a famous face is getting involved too. it makes us all a better person when we get involved. we extend our network and meet new people and develop new friendships. we feel like we are doing something positive. and i love that. members of the royal family are at some of the events, including the prince and princess of wales and their children. they ve been in slough, helping the scouts with a bit of building work, with prince louis k