Presentation about Nuclear Weapons

Scott Ritter and Dr. Larry Wittner will speak about Nuclear Weapons Dangers Today.

WHEN -- Tuesday, December 1st, 7:00 p.m.

WHERE -- Roger Bacon Hall 202 (Key Auditorium), Siena College

Co-sponsored by:
School of Liberal Arts/Peace Studies
The Franciscan Center for Service and Advocacy Bonner Service Leaders Program
Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace

Mr. Ritter and Dr. Wittner also will be signing their most recent books, which will be for sale at the event.

Scott Ritter has had an extensive and distinguished career in government service. He is an intelligence specialist with a 12-year career in the U.S. Marine Corps including assignments in the former Soviet Union and the Middle East. Rising to the rank of Major, Ritter spent several months of the Gulf War serving under General Norman Schwarzkopf with US Central Command headquarters in Saudi Arabia, where he played an instrumental role in formulating and implementing combat operations targeting Iraqi mobile missile launchers which threatened Israel. In 1991, Ritter joined the United Nations weapons inspections team, or UNSCOM. He participated in 34 inspection missions, 14 of them as chief inspector. Ritter resigned from UNSCOM in August 1998, citing US interference in the work of the inspections. He is the author of many books, including Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein and most recently Target Iran: The Truth About the White House’s Plans for Regime Change.

Lawrence S. Wittner is Professor of History at the State University of New York/Albany, and a former president of the Peace History Society. His books include Rebels Against War (1969, rev. ed. 1984), Cold War America (1974, rev. ed. 1978), and American Intervention in Greece (1982). His most extensive project was an award-winning, scholarly trilogy entitled The Struggle Against the Bomb (1993-2003). In June 2009, he came out with an abbreviated version: Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement. He has also edited or co-edited four other books, co-edited the scholarly journal Peace & Change, and written about 200 published articles and book reviews.

For further information, contact Dr. Mo Hannah (Hannah@siena.edu)