For this session, we welcome Professor Brian Palmer.

Before the session, please have a look at the following:

"In a time of palpable climate disruption and periodic threats of thermonuclear annihilation, many people suspect that we have reached our species' final countdown. Young couples debate whether or not to bring new lives into such a world. Yet the approach of danger sometimes calls forth extraordinary courage, as human beings attempt with all their strength to forestall catastrophe. What can our bravest contemporaries and fallen friends teach us about how to live?"

Overview of nuclear war ("climate change at supersonic speed") by a Swedish physicist:
https://time.com/6290977/nuclear-war-impact-essay/

Harvard professor Elaine Scarry on nuclear war:
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/in-the-united-states-just-1-person-has-the-power-to-kill-millions-of-people/

Eleven-minute film, "The Making of Malala":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AitiZ8nTabM

Optional: a lucid explanation of nuclear winter/nuclear famine:
https://thebulletin.org/2022/10/nowhere-to-hide-how-a-nuclear-war-would-kill-you-and-almost-everyone-else/