Atomic humanism - Alvin Weinberg (Michael Shellenberger)

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Link: http://www.environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/6/12/atomic-humanismas-radical-innovation-2017-keynote-address-to-the-american-nuclear-society Please see link above for original article.

Atomic Humanism as Radical Innovation: Michael Shellenberger's Keynote to American Nuclear Society, 2017 June 12, 2017

by Michael Shellenberger I am deeply honored by this special opportunity to address you all. I would like to dedicate my remarks to the atomic humanists around the world — from Taiwan and South Korea to Ohio and Pennsylvania to Germany and France — who are fighting to save the nukes. 1. When Alvin Weinberg was 15, his family was destitute. The year was 1930. They had been hit hard by the Great Depression, and Weinberg’s father — a Russian-born tailor who never realized his dream of becoming an engineer — abandoned them.

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