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Nuclear Weapons
and our Globalizing
Century:
A Multidisciplinary Challenge
for the Christian Academy
August 1- 11, 2013
Osaka, kyoto,
nagasaki, and
hiroshima, japan
important dates
Registration
Applications Due January 15, 2013
Participants Notified February 15, 2013
Registration
$750.00 registration fee plus travel to a major North American city for departure to Japan.
All other airfare, ground transportation, lodging and meals will be covered by a generous grant.
Overview
How should Christians contend with the continuing questions surrounding the Nuclear Age in which
we live? With the end of the Cold War some twenty-five years ago, some public officials and many
private citizens assumed that it would only be a matter of time until nuclear weapons were eliminated
as weapons of mass destruction. Today, nuclear proliferation, combined with the tragic effects of the
tsunami in Japan in 2011, have raised new questions about the role of nuclear technology in today’s
complex world.
This ten – day seminar to Japan will explore these and other questions which are so critical to making
sense of the world in which we live. Participants will meet and engage public officials, church leaders,
educators and other private citizens, and will visit the historic sites of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
where the first nuclear weapons were used during WWII, during the respective cities’ annual
commemoration events.
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