?xml version="1.0"?>Watch LIVE at http://totalwebcasting.com/view/?id=hcfA unique, two-day symposium at which an international panel of leading experts in disarmament, political science, existential risk, artificial intelligence, anthropology, medicine, nuclear weapons and other nuclear issues sponsored by The Helen Caldicott Foundation. Morning Session 9.15 - 9.30 Moderator Kennette Benedict - CancelledExecutive Editor and Publisher Bulletin of Atomic Scientists - It's 3 Minutes to Midnight. 9.35 - 9.55 Theodore PostolProfessor Emeritus of Science, Technology, and National Security Policy, MIT - Striving for Armageddon 10.00 - 10.20 Max TegmarkProfessor of Physics, MIT - Artificial Intelligence and the Risk of Accidental Nuclear War 10.25 - 10.45 Alan RobockDistinguished Professor, Department Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University - Nuclear Famine and Nuclear Winter: Climatic Effects of Nuclear War, Catastrophic Threats to the Global Food Supply 10.50 - 11.20 Q&A 11.20 - 11:50 tea and coffee break 11.55 - 12.15 Steven StarrAssociate of Nuclear Age peace Foundation, Former Board Member and Senior Scientist for Physicians for Social Responsibility - An Unrecognized Catastrophic Extinction Event Waiting to Happen 12.20 - 12.40 Bruce GagnonGlobal Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space - The Ongoing and Dangerous Militarization of Space Nuclear War 12.45 - 1.05 Bill HartungCenter for International Policy - Inordinate Power and Pathological Dynamics of the US Military Industrial Complex 1:05 - 1:30 Q&A 1:30 - 2:30 Lunch Break Afternoon Session 2:40-3.00 Greg MelloLos Alamos Study Group - The Role and Funding of the US Nuclear Weapons Labs 3.05 - 3.25 Seth BaumGlobal Catastrophic Risk Institute - The Catastrophic Risk of Nuclear War 3.30 - 3.50 Bob AlvarezInstitute Of Policy Studies - Lateral Proliferation Could Trigger a Nuclear Holocaust 3.55 - 4.15 Robert ParryInvestigative Journalist, Consortium News - Ukraine and the Human Factor : How propaganda and passions can risk nuclear conflagration. 4.15 - 4.45 Q&A DAY TWO: Sunday, March 1 Morning Session 9.00 - 9.15am Opening by Moderator Ray AchesonDirector of Reaching Critical Will - Report on Vienna conference 9.20 - 9.40 Holly BarkerDepartment of Anthropology, University of Washington - Medical, Teratogenic and Genetic Pathology Related to US Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands 9.45 - 10.05 Hans KristensenFederation of American Scientists - The Status and Trends of the World's Nuclear Arsenals 10.10 - 10.30 John FefferInstitute of Policy Studies - Comparison of Spending on US Military Industrial Complex and Prevention of Global Warming 10.35 - 11.05 Q&A 11.05 - 11.35 Tea and Coffee Break 11.40- 12.00 Janne NolanElliott School of International Affairs - Hooligans at the Gate: The Checkered History of Arms Control 12.05 - 12:25 Mike LofgrenFormer congressional staffer and author of Anatomy of the Deep State - The Merger of Corporations and the US Government as an Underlying Cause of the Current Nuclear Situation 12.30 - 12.50 Susi Snyder(PAX, the Netherlands), Author of the 2013 & 2014 DON'T BANK ON THE BOMB reports - Don't Bank on the Bomb. 12.55- 1:25 Q&A 1.30- 2.30 Lunch Break Afternoon Session 2:35- 2.55 Alex WellersteinAssistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Stevens Institute of Technology - Personalizing the Bomb 3.00 - 3.20 Hugh GustersonProfessor of Anthropology and International Affairs, George Washington University will describe his anthropological research over many years studying the culture of nuclear weapons scientists at Livermore and Los Alamos Labs. 3.25 - 3.45 Robert Scheerauthor of Star Warriors - The Madness Persists 3.50 - 4.10 Noam ChomskyInstitute Professor and Professor of Linguistics MIT - A Pathology That Could Yield to Catastrophe if Not Cured 4.15 - 4.45 Q&A 4.45 - 4.15 Tea and Coffee Break 5.20 - 5.40 David KriegerPresident Nuclear Age Peace Foundation -Nuclear Zero Lawsuits Brought By the Marshall Islands Against the Nine Nuclear Nations 5.45 - 6.05 Tim WrightCampaign Director International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons ICAN - Some New and Exciting Solutions 6.10 - 6.30 Dr. Helen CaldicottPresident The Helen Caldicott Foundation- While There's Life There's Hope More information at http://helencaldicottfoundation.org/symposium-the-dynamics-of-possible-nuclear-extinction-l-february-28-march-1-2015-at-the-new-york-academy-of-medicine/
