| About Anxiety in the Nuclear
Age
In January 2007, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
(www.thebulletin.org)
moved the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock forward
two minutes, to five minutes to midnight, the figurative
end of civilization, citing the perils of the earth's
27,000 nuclear weapons—2,000 of them ready to
launch within minutes—as one of the main reasons
for doing so.
They said "We stand at the brink of a Second Nuclear
Age. Not since the first atomic bombs were dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki has the world faced such perilous
choices."
In two public lectures in California in July 1983,
Lama Yeshe addressed the perils of the First Nuclear
Age, exacerbated at that time by the Cold War and Americans'
worries over the Soviet nuclear threat. Although the
nature of our current concerns is different, Lama's
observations and insights are as relevant today as they
were when he first made them and we are honored to bring
thme to you on this DVD.
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is available for $15 (plus shipping) from our online
store.
Read an Edited Transcript Online
Lecture 1: Talk
from Berkeley CA on 13 July 1983
Listen to These Talks Online
»Lecture 1: Berkeley CA, 13 July 1983
»Lecture 2: Santa Cruz CA, 16 July 1983
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