Studying Nuclear Policy Without Being Engulfed By Fear
Like most people born just as the Cold War was ending, I learned about nuclear weapons in the past tense.
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Have you seen a bomb before? Can a nuclear war happen today? Would we survive it? What, exactly, should we do?
The more skilled I became in my field, the wider the gulf seemed between global affairs and the real world.
Lovely Umayam is a nuclear nonproliferation expert, writer, and founder of Bombshelltoe Policy x Arts Collective (www.bombshelltoe.com), which convenes policy experts, scientists, artists, and artists to examine how nuclear issues intersect with social justice.
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