HOMEFRONT: NUCLEAR WEAPONS:
PROLIFERATION VS. ABOLITION

Guest Panelists:

Dr. Schuyler Foerster is President of the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh and teaches in the Graduate School for Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. A graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Foerster received his Ph.D. in Politics from Oxford University. During his twenty-six years in the U.S. Air Force, Dr. Foerster served as advisor to senior military and civilian leaders in security and arms control policy.

Dr. Donald H. McNeill is a consulting physicist. During 2001-2 he was a Senior Research Associate at the National Energy Technology Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy. McNeill also is a translator of scientific literature from Russian and German into English. He has had a longstanding interest in the physics and history of nuclear weaponry and has studied the problem extensively, including the situation in India and Pakistan.

Dr. Gordon R. Mitchell is Associate Professor of Communication and Core Faculty in the Global Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Mitchell has published widely in scholarly and popular publications on the weaponization of space. His book, Strategic Deception: Rhetoric, Science and Politics in Missile Defense Advocacy, was published by Michigan State University Press in 2000.

Dr. Victor Sidel is the Distinguished University Professor of Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He co-founded both Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, a winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize. Sidel recently co-edited War and Public Health and Terrorism and Public Health: A Balanced Approach to Strengthening Systems and Protecting People.