Video of Symposium on Nuclear Nonproliferation available online

April 15, 2008

Video footage and photos from Rowan University's Symposium on Nuclear Nonproliferation & Global Politics, moderated by former CBS anchor Dan Rather, is available for viewing on the University's web site at www.rowan.edu/hollybush.

The capstone event in a year-long commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Glassboro Summit between President Lyndon Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin, held on Rowan's campus, the April 11 symposium featured lively discussion on issues of nuclear nonproliferation and global politics by three world-renowned experts.

The panelists included: Joseph Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund; Rose Gottemoeller, Moscow Center director, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and William Potter, director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar Professor of Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies.

Rather, who covered the summit for CBS in 1967, returned to Glassboro to engage panelists in conversation that included, among other topics, discussion regarding the future of nuclear nonproliferation, emerging nuclear nations, such as China, and the impact and legacy of the summit.

Rowan's web site also includes archival footage of the summit, interviews with local residents who remember the summit, and video of past lectures and events in the Hollybush Lecture Series.