Tuesday, November 13
4:15 p.m.
Hesburgh Center for International Studies Auditorium
with reception following at 5:30 p.m.

At a 1986 summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, the U.S. and the Soviet Union came within an ace of abolishing all nuclear weapons.

How did it happen? 
Why did they fail? 
Why is this encounter key for nuclear disarmament efforts today?

Jonathan Schell’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated book The Fate of the Earth (1982) was hailed by The New York Times as “an event of profound historical moment” for its role in sparking a national movement to freeze the buildup of nuclear weapons.  A prolific writer and powerful speaker, Schell is a leading voice for a nuclear-free world.  He is a senior visiting lecturer at Yale University, where he teaches a course on the nuclear dilemma. In addition, Schell is the Harold Willens Peace Fellow at the Nation Institute, the Peace and Disarmament Correspondent for The Nation, and also writes for Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, and Tomdispatch.com.

Following the lecture, Jonathan Schell will sign copies of his new book, The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger.

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Sponsored by Kroc Institute and the Fourth Freedom Forum.

Free and open to the public.

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