Congressional Policy Advisor to Speak on Nuclear Weapons Disarmament Nov. 5

Story posted October 30, 2009

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Tad Daley, author of the forthcoming book Apocalypse Never: Forging the Path to a Nuclear Weapon-Free World (Rutgers University Press) will speak at Bowdoin College at 7:30 p.m. Thursday November 5, 2009, in Main Lounge, Moulton Union. The talk is open to the public and admission is free.

Daley, who is a fellow with the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, will discuss his scholarship and advocacy for defining a progressive foreign policy vision for the post-9/11 world, abolishing nuclear weapons, ending genocide forever, reinventing the United Nations, and articulating an ethic of allegiance to humanity. "Tad Daley explains in commonsense language the process for bringing a nuclear weapon-free world from utopia to reality," says Congressman Dennis Kucinich.

Joseph Cirincione, president of The Ploughshares Fund, notes, "Tad Daley takes a penetrating look at the threat President Barack Obama calls 'the gravest danger to the American people,' and details how the only real solution is to move steadily towards eliminating the weapons that can destroy the world. We would be wise to listen."

Daley has published numerous articles in newspapers, magazines, professional journals, and Web forums on positive future visions and the politics of hope. His newspaper op-eds have appeared in the International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, USA TODAY, Christian Science Monitor, Philadelphia Inquirer, Miami Herald, and many other newspapers.

From early 2005 until the middle of 2007, Daley served as Peace and Disarmament Fellow in the Los Angeles office of Physicians for Social Responsibility. He is also a cofounder of the political advocacy group Progressive Democrats of America, and chair of their nuclear disarmament task force.

Tad Daley holds degrees from Knox College and the University of Southampton in England and a Ph.D. in International Policy Analysis from the RAND Graduate School and RAND/UCLA Center for Soviet Studies in California. He also earned a J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law.

Daley's Bowdoin presentation is hosted by the Department of Government and Legal Studies with support from the John C. Donovan Lecture Fund. The talk is sponsored by the Bowdoin Model U.N. Club and the Maine Chapters of the United Nations Association-USA and Physicians for Social Responsibility.

The John C. Donovan Lecture Fund was established at Bowdoin College in 1990 by colleagues, friends, and members of the Donovan family, through the leadership of Shepard Lee, Bowdoin Class of 1947. This fund is used to support a lecture in the field of political science.

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