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Seattle FOR on Towards the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, Zoom
October 16, 2022 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Towards the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons:
THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, THE NONPROLIFERATION TREATY AND THE TPNW
Sun Oct 16, 6:30-8 pm, Zoom
Seattle Fellowship of Reconciliation presents Joanne Dufour (former member) who will speak about the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, on the 60th anniversary of the time when the United States and the USSR came terrifyingly close to starting a nuclear war. Joanne will share her experience at the recent UN Review Conference on the Nonproliferation Treaty in New York. None of the nuclear weapon countries, including the US and Russian Federation (now the possessor of USSR weapons) is complying with our treaty obligations to disarm. Yet there is exciting, good news to share.
As Wikipedia states about the Cuban Missile Crisis, “The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.” Let’s hope that the war in Ukraine doesn’t rival this crisis.
When Joanne lived in Seattle she was a member of Seattle FOR. Since then, she has retired from the university classrooms, lived four years in Louisiana where her husband was from – as his care taker until he passed, and became involved with the Unitarian Universalist UN Office by producing a blog on Disarming Our Planet for them. This prompted her continuing interest in Nuclear Weapons, especially the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and the Nobel Prize Winner, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. She is now an active member of the Olympia Coalition Against Nuclear Weapons since she moved back to Washington living in Panorama in Lacey. She is looking forward to reconnecting with old friends.
All interested people are warmly welcome!
info 206-789-5565 or https://wwfor.org/calendar/
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