Helen Caldicott Symposium: Possible Future Nuclear War

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Symposium: The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction l February 28-March 1, 2015 at The New York Academy of Medicine. Described as a 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.
This was a project of The Helen Caldicott Foundation.

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