Fwd: [Associates] Olof Palme award

[Mark Kohut]

That frozen-in-midair bomb.....

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> From: Howard Wachtel <wachtel at american.edu>
> Date: January 9, 2019 at 10:49:09 AM EST
> To: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>, Marie Tyler McGraw <mtylermc at verizon.net>
> Subject: FW: [Associates] Olof Palme award
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> From: Associates <associates-bounces at lists.tni.org> On Behalf Of Thomas Reifer via Associates
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2019 10:42 AM
> To: associates at tni.org
> Subject: [Associates] Olof Palme award
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> January 9, 2019
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> Dear Friends:
>  
> It was announced today that our friend, Daniel Ellsberg,
> has won the 2019 Olof Palme award, named for the former
> Prime Minister of Sweden, who was tragically assassinated,
> and a significant factor was the publication of Dan's book,
> The Doomsday Machine:  Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner,
> which was released last year, right when the film, The Post, on the
> Pentagon Papers, was in theaters, and which has just been released
> in paperback.  
>  
> Coincidentally, today is also the 35th anniversary of the beginning
> of the course Dan taught as a University of California, Regents
> Lecturer, at University of California, Irvine, Nuclear Weapons and Foreign
> Policy, and the 1st day we met (Dan tells a bit of my story and the story
> of how we first met in his generous Acknowledgements in the book).  
> The book is amazing, and has references to various other of our friends and
> Fellows, and their work on nuclear weapons and for peace, including Achin's important
> recent work on this subject!
>  
> Sweden has signed the treaty calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons, though
> it is trying to get into NATO.  And I think the prize award was hoped too, to further
> Sweden's commitment to the treaty, and rethinking the question of security and the
> future of the human species, now threatened by nuclear weapons, climate change
> and war, in a cooperative vein.
>  
> Here's the link to the award:  http://www.palmefonden.se/2018-daniel-ellsberg-2/
>  
> Best to all for the New Year.  Dan will be accepting the award with his wife
> Patricia in Sweden later this month.
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> Tom Reifer
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