About us
The Long Now Boston Meetup Group is organizationally independent but philosophically aligned with The Long Now Foundation in San Francisco. Recently the Boston Meetup Group received permission to form an independent non-profit in the Boston/Cambridge area using The Long Now Foundation name. A first for Long Now. Stay tuned for developments over the next many months as Long Now Boston begins it new chapter.
The Long Now Foundation was founded in San Francisco in 01996 (www.longnow.org). As stated on their website: Long Now was established "to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide a counterpoint to today's accelerating culture and help make long-term thinking more common. We hope to foster responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years."
The Long Now Boston effort was founded by Bill Davison in 02015. We started the Long Now Boston Meetup Group in January 02016. We now have an active Steering Committee and Events Planning subgroups. Our program year typically extends from September through May with an occasional summer event.
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Reducing the Risk of Nuclear War: The Long View
The Foundry Cambridge, 101 Rogers St Cambridge, MA 02142, Cambridge, MA, USNOTE: You must register and buy tickets by clicking this Eventbrite link; RSVPing via Meetup will not get you a ticket.
Some of the most consequential decisions our civilization makes — decisions that will shape the lives of countless future generations — concern nuclear weapons and the risk of nuclear war. Harvard's Matthew Bunn will join Long Now Boston to take the long view on one of humanity's defining challenges.
A nuclear war is unlikely to come "out of a clear blue sky." It is far more likely to arise from a crisis or conflict between nuclear-armed states that escalates step by step. Bunn offers a structured way of thinking about reducing the risk at each of those steps: lowering the chance of conflict among nuclear-armed states in the first place; keeping any conflict that does occur from crossing the nuclear threshold; and ensuring that, if nuclear weapons are ever used, the exchange does not escalate to hundreds or thousands of weapons.
Drawing on decades of work on nuclear security and arms control, Bunn will explore the key factors driving the risk of nuclear war today and the practical levers — technical, diplomatic, and political — that can shift those factors toward greater safety over the coming decades.
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