Helen Caldicott, M.D., pediatrician and internationally recognized author and lecturer, hosts a weekly, one-hour radio program titled If You Love This Planet. Produced by Jasmin WIlliams and Scott Powell. Edited by Jasmin Williams.
This weekâs guest is Professor Lawrence S. Wittner, an award-winning American historian, writer, and activist for peace and social justice. Prof. Wittner is the author or editor of a dozen books including Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement and his recently published autobiography Working for Peace and Justice: Memoirs of an Activist Intellectual. He is also the writer of over 250 published articles and book reviews, mostly on issues of peace, war, and international relations. Prof. Wittner is a former editor of Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research. Currently, he is a national board member of Peace Action and the executive secretary of the Albany County Central Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO. Dr. Caldicott and Prof. Wittner discuss the history of the U.S. antinuclear movement and how to educate the public today about the need to eliminate nuclear weapons.