City Lights Booksellers & Publishers in conjunction with the San Francisco Bay Chapter of Physician's for Social Responsibility present The Bomb: Understanding its History and the Hope for a Nuclear-Free Future, a discussion with Fred Kaplan, James L Nolan Jr., Dr. Tova Fuller & Dr. Robert Gould (of Physicians for Social Responsibility S.F. Bay Chapter).

Celebrating two new books: Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age by James L Nolan Jr. - published by Belknap/Harvard Press & The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War by Fred Kaplan - published by Simon & Schuster.

This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet.

 

Fred Kaplan is the national-security columnist for Slate and the author of five previous books, Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War, The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War (a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestseller), 1959, Daydream Believers, and The Wizards of Armageddon. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Brooke Gladstone.

James L. Nolan, Jr., is Washington Gladden 1859 Professor of Sociology at William's College. His previous books include What They Saw in America: Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G. K. Chesterton, and Sayyid Qutb and Reinventing Justice: The American Drug Court Movement.

Tova Fuller MD PhD is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Fuller serves as vice president of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and has served on the national, Los Angeles chapter, and Washington PSR chapter boards. She was a member of PSR-LA's nuclear ambassadors program and WPSR's nuclear activism committee. Her primary area of interest is the interface between public health and militarism as it relates to nuclear weapons.

Robert Gould, MD is an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine where he also serves as the Director of Health Professional Outreach and Education for the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE). Until 2012, Dr. Gould worked as a pathologist at Kaiser Hospital in San Jose, California. He has been President of the PSR San Francisco-Bay Area since 1989. Dr. Gould serves as a chairperson in the American Public Health Association's Peace Caucus. In 2009, the APHA awarded Dr. Gould the prestigious Sidel-Levy Peace Award. Dr. Gould is also a leading member of the Environmental Committee of the Santa Clara County chapter of the California Medical Association (CMA). Dr. Gould has authored numerous book chapters on the health impacts of nuclear weapons including War and Public Health (2007, Oxford University Press) and Terrorism and Public Health (2011, Oxford University Press).