A special side-benefit of the war in Ukraine: talk of Russian nukes in Belarus and of U.S. nukes in Ukraine, Greece, Japan, etc.

Worst case ever of learning the wrong lessons?

In May 2022, World BEYOND War will be holding a weekly discussion each of four weeks of Sleepwalking to Armageddon: The Threat of Nuclear Annihilation with the author Helen Caldicott as part of a small group WBW book club limited to a group of 18 participants.

We will send each participant a hardcover or kindle or nook copy of the book. We'll let you know which parts of the book will be discussed each week along with the Zoom details to access the discussions.

Click here to sign up in time to receive and read the book!

When: For one hour on four Tuesdays, May 3, 10, 17, and 24, 2022. The time is 1 a.m. Pacific, 4 a.m. Eastern, 9 a.m. in London, 10 a.m. Central European, 12:30 p.m. in Tehran, 6 p.m. in Sydney, and 8 p.m. in Aukland:

Where: Zoom (details to be shared upon registration)

This is a small group series with limited space of up to 18 people. Sign up to reserve your spot and allow for enough time to receive the book. We look forward to reading and discussing this important book with you!

About the Book:

A frightening but necessary assessment of the threat posed by nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century, edited by the world’s leading antinuclear activist.

“Dr. Helen Caldicott has the rare ability to combine science with passion, logic with love, and urgency with humor.” —Naomi Klein

With the world’s attention focused on climate change and terrorism, we are in danger of taking our eyes off the nuclear threat. But rising tensions between Russia and NATO, proxy wars erupting in Syria and Ukraine, a nuclear-armed Pakistan, and unsecured stockpiles of aging weapons around the globe make a nuclear attack or a terrorist attack on a nuclear facility arguably the biggest threat facing humanity.

In Sleepwalking to Armageddon, pioneering antinuclear activist Helen Caldicott assembles the world’s leading nuclear scientists and thought leaders to assess the political and scientific dimensions of the threat of nuclear war today.

Chapters address the size and distribution of the current global nuclear arsenal, the history and politics of nuclear weapons, the culture of modern-day weapons labs, the militarization of space, and the dangers of combining artificial intelligence with nuclear weaponry, as well as a status report on enriched uranium and a shocking analysis of spending on nuclear weapons over the years.

The book ends with a devastating description of what a nuclear attack on Manhattan would look like, followed by an overview of contemporary antinuclear activism. Both essential and terrifying, this book is sure to become the new bible of the antinuclear movement—to wake us from our complacency and urge us to action.

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Check out and go ahead and sign up for future book clubs in more coming months. They're all at different times of the day, convenient to different parts of the globe.


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