Prof. Lawrence Wittner on reenergizing the nuclear disarmament movement
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Prof. Wittner
This week’s guest is Professor Lawrence S. Wittner, an award-winning American historian, writer, and activist for peace and social justice. Prof. Wittner is the author or editor of a dozen books including Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement and his recently published autobiography Working for Peace and Justice: Memoirs of an Activist Intellectual. He is also the writer of over 250 published articles and book reviews, mostly on issues of peace, war, and international relations. Prof. Wittner is a former editor of Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research. Currently, he is a national board member of Peace Action and the executive secretary of the Albany County Central Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO. Read Prof. Wittner’s March 2012 Huffington Post article How I Happened to Write My Memoirs. Check out other articles by Wittner on huffingtonpost.com.