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Part I of Interview with Mark Kane on the West Michigan Nuclear Freeze Campaign in the early 1980s
This is Part I of a two part interview with former director of the Institute for Global Education Mark Kane. In the United States, awareness about nuclear weapons was relatively marginal, until people like Dr. Helen Caldicott and Jonathan Schell … Continue reading
