Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Study Courses

Technische Fachhochschule Berlin/Germany-University of Applied Science
“Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace-Study Courses”
Summer Term 2004

1. Term: From April to July, 2004

2. Coordinator: Professor Eugen Eichhorn

3. 　 Lecturer and Content

Discovery of nuclear fission and activities to build an atomic bomb in Germany
Abstract
Prof. Eugen Eichhorn, April 7, 2004
Pearl Harbor and its outstanding world-political meaning in the 20th century
- Legends, Facts and Backgrounds -
Abstract
Dipl.-Ing. Jurgen Schroter, April 21, 2004
Manhattan Project
Under this umbrella organization many high ranking scientists--among them numerous European emigrants--and thousands of engineers and workmen worked at the top secret nuclear research laboratories in Los Alamos and at many other research facilities, spread over the United States, toward the completion of the world's first atomic bombs
Abstract
Prof. Eugen Eichhorn, May 5, 2004
(1) Report on dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
　　 in August 1945: Destruction; radiation; continuing effects on the
　　 awareness of the Japanese people; nuclear medicine dimensions;
(2) Social history of the Hibakusha;
(3) Atomic bomb literature
(4) The moral issue
Abstract
(1) Dipl.-Ing. Jurgen Schroter, (2)・(3) Prof. Eugen Eichhorn, (4) Martin Lotz, May 19, 2004
Ethics and science, ethics of scientists and engineers
Abstract
Martin Lotz, End of June, 2004
Cold war, nuclear armament race, new nuclear strategies
Abstract
Dr. Bernd Gappa, June 2, 2004
International treaties on armament restriction and armament reduction
(SALT / START / ABM / INF / NPT)
Abstract
Xanthe Hall (IPPNW), June 16, 2004
International networks for elimination of nuclear weapons
(Pugwash movement / IPPNW / IALANA / INESAP / Abolition 2000 /
scientists opposition, e.g. Joliot-Curie, Rotblat, Russell)
Abstract
Dr. Bernd Gappa, June 30, 2004
Examples of peace culture by means of selected biographies:
Gandhi (India) / M.L. King (USA) / Mandela (South Africa) / Thich Nhat Hanh (Vietnam)
Abstract
Prof. Eugen Eichhorn, Dr. Bernd Gappa, Dipl.-Ing. Jurgen Schroter, Martin Lotz, July 14, 2004

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