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Rachel Carson and Ending the Nuclear Age – Video

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Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Pentz Gunter was a featured speaker at the recent Rachel Carson Jubilee and Civic Colloquium, hosted by the Rachel Carson Council. She joined Full Body Burden author, Kristen Iverson, and Council for a Livable World executive director, and former Congressman, John Tierney, on a panel about nuclear weapons and nuclear power. Watch their presentations here.

Video Published on 15 Dec 2016

Rachel Carson was opposed to nuclear weapons and testing and radioactive wastes as early as 1946 when she saw the results of biological studies done after two American atomic bomb blasts at Bikini Atoll. She campaigned for Adlai Stevenson and John F. Kennedy for President in part because of their opposition to open-air nuclear testing. Panelists present on the relevance of Carson’s anti-nuclear legacy for today.

Kristen Iversen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Cincinnati, author of Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats

Linda Pentz Gunter
Co-founder, Beyond Nuclear, international expert on nuclear power

John Tierney, J.D.
Executive Director, the Council for a Livable World, former nine-term congressman from Massachusetts on House Oversight and Intelligence Committees.

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