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WEBINAR ANNOUNCEMENT
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Climate and Humanitarian Consequences of an even Limited Nuclear
Exchange and the Actual Risks of Nuclear War
Public webinar
February 16, 2024 - 16:00 (CET)
(Official language: English)
Programme
Moderated by Mieke Massink - CNR ISTI; CNR GI-STS
16:00 Opening
Fabio Recchia - President of Area della Ricerca CNR, Pisa
Giuliano Colombetti - CNR IBF; CNR GI-STS
16:15 Climatic and Agricultural Consequences of a Regional Nuclear War
Venance Journé - Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Paris, F
16:45 Actual Current Risks of a Limited Nuclear Exchange
Paolo Cotta Ramusino - Secretary General of Pugwash Conferences on
Science and World Affairs
17:15 Discussion
The webinar is organized by the
Gruppo Interdisciplinare su Scienza, Tecnologia e Società (GI-STS)
dell'Area della Ricerca di Pisa del CNR
In cooperation with
Areaperta - Area della Ricerca CNR di Pisa
Caffè della Scienza "N. Badaloni" - Livorno
Centro Interdisciplinare Scienze per La Pace dell'Università di Pisa
Istituto di Biofisica del CNR
Istituto di Fisiologia Clinica del CNR
Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione ``A. Faedo'' del CNR
La Nuova Limonaia
Laboratorio Informatica e Società del CINI
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
Unione degli Scienziati Per Il Disarmo
For further information --- including the link for online participation
--- please refer to the "Events" web page
(http://gists.pi.cnr.it/events.html ) in the web site of the Gruppo
Interdisciplinare su Scienza, Tecnologia e Società (GI-STS) of Area
della Ricerca di Pisa del CNR,(http://gists.pi.cnr.it ).
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D. Latella
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Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR/ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124
Pisa, Italy (http:www.isti.cnr.it)
FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it)
CNR/GI-STS (http://gists.pi.cnr.it)
https://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, fax:
+390506212040
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The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in
the
process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by
kindness rather than compulsion; if in the process we learn how to
combine
the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the
practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark
on
this great task.
Above all, remember your humanity.
-- Sir Joseph Rotblat
I don't quite know whether it is especially computer science or its
subdiscipline Artificial Intelligence that has such an enormous
affection
for euphemism. We speak so spectacularly and so readily of computer
systems
that understand, that see, decide, make judgments, and so on, without
ourselves recognizing our own superficiality and immeasurable naivete
with
respect to these concepts. And, in the process of so speaking, we
anesthetise our ability to evaluate the quality of our work and, what is
more important, to identify and become conscious of its end use. […] One
can't escape this state without asking, again and again: "What do I
actually do? What is the final application and use of the products of my
work?" and ultimately, "am I content or ashamed to have contributed to
this
use?"
-- Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum ["Not without us", ACM SIGCAS 16(2-3) 2--7 -
Aug. 1986]
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