Serhii Plokhy, Mykhailo S. Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University 
The Nuclear Age: Chernobyl 40 Years After
 

Join us for an online discussion with the preeminent historian and bestselling author Serhii Plokhy about his latest book, The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power, and Survival. 

In The Nuclear Age, Plokhy explores why governments have acquired and stockpiled nuclear weapons and reveals the global failure to reach meaningful nuclear arms treaties. Plokhy argues that the risk of nuclear war has never been so high: Russia threatens nuclear aggression in its war on Ukraine; China is constructing hundreds of new missile silos; and India and Pakistan are locked in ongoing nuclear competition. Plokhy also examines how more countries than ever have come within perilous reach of acquiring nuclear arms, while new technologies, such as hypersonic missiles and artificial intelligence, make the nuclear landscape increasingly unpredictable.
 

Co-sponsored with Lane Public Library and moderated by the director of Miami's Havighurst Center for East European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Stephen Norris, this event is timed to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster (April 26, 1986) which Plokhy has also written about in his books Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Disaster and Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster.

You can attend the event in-person at Lane Library OR drop-in online via the provided Zoom link.