William Perry to educate public on nuclear weapons, threats in new Stanford online course
Source: Stanford University News
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense and Professor Emeritus William J. Perry has long been educating people about the threat of nuclear disaster. His latest effort is a free online course that includes some of the world’s foremost nuclear experts.
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William J. Perry believes a nuclear disaster is more imminent than it has ever been during the Cold War. He wants more people to take his warning seriously and start discussing ways that society could lessen the threat of nuclear weapons.
Perry, who is the Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor, Emeritus, at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and at the School of Engineering, was U.S. secretary of defense from February 1994 to January 1997. He said he believes the policies of the United States do not reflect the current danger of nuclear threats because the continued risk of a catastrophe isn’t widely recognized.
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His latest effort comes in a form of a new online course, Living at the Nuclear Brink: Yesterday and Today. During the 10-week course, which began Oct. 4, Perry and some of the world’s leading experts in the history, politics and science of nuclear conflict will offer an accessible introduction to the problem and suggestions for how to alleviate the dangers the world faces.
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Each week, Perry will present along with distinguished experts in the field. Many of the experts are Stanford faculty members, including political scientist Martha Crenshaw, Soviet experts David Holloway and Siegfried Hecker, political scientist Scott D. Sagan, and George Shultz, a former U.S. Secretary of State and a distinguished fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Outside experts include Ploughshares Fund president Joseph Cirincione, nuclear negotiator James Goodby, former Russian Deputy Minister of Defense Andrei Kokoshin, Joseph Martz of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Philip Taubman, a former New York Times national security reporter and an associate vice president for university affairs at Stanford.
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Read more: http://news.stanford.edu/2016/10/07/william-perry-educate-public-nuclear-weapons-threats-online-course/
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