News Release

Noted expert on U.S. nuclear weapons speaks at UDM

The Carney Latin American Solidarity Archive (CLASA) at University of Detroit Mercy is sponsoring a presentation by Frida Berrigan, senior program associate of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New American Foundation.

Berrigan’s talk “U.S. Weapons at War: Confronting and Getting Beyond the Bush Legacy,” will be held on Wednesday. January 21, 2009 at 7 p.m. in the Ford Life Sciences Building, Room 113 and will address the weapons issue we face, while both confronting and moving forward after the current George W. Bush presidency.

Prior to her work at the New America Foundation, she served for eight years as deputy director and senior research associate at the Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute at the New School in New York City. Berrigan has also contributed to “The Nation” magazine, “Foreign Policy in Focus” and a contributing editor for “In These Times” magazine.

The author of several articles and reports on arms trade and human rights, U.S. nuclear weapons policy, and the domestic politics of U.S. missile defense and space weapons policies, she has been a featured expert on national and regional radio outlets, and regularly speaks on national security issues at major conferences throughout the country.

This event is free and open to the public.  For more information, contact CLASA director Dr. Gail Presbey at 313-993-1124 or presbegm@udmercy.edu.

Release date: January 09, 2009

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