How to Stop a Nuclear War: Film Screening & Discussion with Paul Jay

The Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy at UMass Amherst presents a special promotional screening and discussion of the new documentary How to Stop a Nuclear War with award-winning journalist and filmmaker Paul Jay. 

Based on Daniel Ellsberg’s groundbreaking book The Doomsday Machine and narrated by acclaimed actor Emma Thompson, How to Stop a Nuclear War picks up where The Day After and Oppenheimer left off. The film unfolds as a gripping political thriller, exposing both the stark present-day dangers of nuclear weapons and the “institutional madness” that has brought the world to the brink.

Paul Jay is an internationally recognized journalist and filmmaker whose work has won awards at major film festivals worldwide.

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