NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Workshop organised by the Peace & Development Platform
Date: Wednesday, August 28
Time: 09h15-10h45
Venue: Boell Forum at the Global People's Forum +
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Talk by Dr. David Fig on the South African nuclear weapons programme
-- this talk will review the links between the nuclear energy and
weapons programmes of the apartheid government,questioning the power
configurations,and looking at the implications of South Africa becoming
the first country to abandon its nuclear bomb programme. Can a nuclear
programme ever form part of a sustainable future?
Dr David Fig has been writing on the South African nuclear programme
for 25 years and was an activist in Koeberg Alert,South Africa ’s
first anti- nuclear movement.He was Director of the Group For Environmental
Monitoring (GEM),a Johannesburg based NGO,and currently runs a research
project on Corporate Social and Environmental accountability at
WITS.
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