Associate professor of history at temple university. Shes a specialist in transnational culture, gender history and the history of cultural globalization. Shes a coeditor of the one of the most important journals in the field, diplomatic history. And her publications include two books. Now, of course, politics of peace published by oxford this year. Its based on this book that she will be speaking to us today. She has coedited two books, the human rights revolution, oxford 2012, and the oxford handbook of the cold war published in 2013. Today she will be speaking on, quote, if you want peace, detours on the path to politics of peace in the early cold war. You have the floor. Thank you very much. Thanks to christian, eric, to peter, rachel and everybody else who makes this possible for inviting me. Its a great honor to be here. I was embarrassed to have to admit i had never been here. Im going to try and make an effort, because i realize philadelphia is not that far from washington, at
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The recent test of a u. S. Missile has heightened alarm among anti Nuclear Activists that a reckless new arms race threatens humankind the launch of the modified tomahawk missile on august the 18th came just 2 weeks after the u. S. Formally withdrew from a missile treaty with russia that was after 32 years but the actions of other countries are also fought with risk analysts say that a recent radioactive explosion in northern russia is a sign that more sco is developing new weapons that can evade a Missile Defense and differences between Nuclear Armed india and pakistan over kashmir have jangled nerves across south asia what can activists do to convince the World Leaders to abandon the bomb for more were joined today by Cicely Thompson williams hes executive director at beyond the ball thats a Grassroots Campaign to prevent nuclear or from geneva we have bit trist fin executive director of the International Campaign to abolish Nuclear Weapons or i can. The campaign won the Nobel Peace
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