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Just Announced: Pioneer Works Names Mara Manus Chief Executive Officer

The Board of Directors of Pioneer Works is pleased to announce that Mara Manus, former Executive Director for New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), has been appointed as the organization’s new Chief Executive Officer. 

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As the head of the Ploughshares Fund—the United States’ leading non-profit in the fight to eliminate nuclear weapons—Dr. Emma Belcher forewarns us about the effects of nuclear testing on Aboriginal communities, and points towards the ways in which the coronavirus pandemic may help us prevent future nuclear disaster. Prior to her current position, Belcher spent nearly a decade at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, where she led the Nuclear Challenges grantmaking program.

Dr. Emma Belcher on the Toxic Legacy of Australian Nuclear Testing and the Continuing Nuclear Threat

To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by atomic bombs, Pioneer Works is hosting the bomb at 75, a limited series where author Eric Schlosser and artist Smriti Keshari talk with experts in the nuclear field about their personal histories, their critical work, the shocking and fascinating scenes they have witnessed, as well as their hopes and messages for the future.

In this conversation, Lieutenant General Arlen “Dirk” Jameson expresses his strong opposition to the Trump administration’s current plans to spend $2 trillion on the modernization of the country’s nuclear arsenal. Having acted as the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the US Strategic Command after three decades of service in the Air Force, Jameson is deeply familiar with the nitty-gritty of nuclear planning, as well as with the tangible threat of global annihilation.

Lieutenant General Arlen "Dirk" Jameson on Leading Us Strategic Command and the Nitty-Gritty of Nuclear Planning

the bomb at 75: Lieutenant General Arlen "Dirk" Jameson on Leading Us Strategic Command and the Nitty-Gritty of Nuclear Planning

Leona Morgan (Diné/Navajo) is an indigenous community organizer who has been fighting nuclear colonialism since 2007. The Albuquerque-based activist co-founded and works with the Nuclear Issues Study Group and Diné No Nukes, which contributes to the Haul No! initiative and Radiation Monitoring Project. A participant in the international campaign Don’t Nuke The Climate, Morgan hones in on the manifold dangers and issues that stem from nuclear colonialism and environmental racism.

Leona Morgan on Nuclear Colonialism and the Effects of Uranium Mining on the Navajo Nation

the bomb at 75: Leona Morgan on Nuclear Colonialism and the Effects of Uranium Mining on the Navajo Nation

Schlosser and Keshari converse with Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Zink, a former B-52 navigator and bombardier during the Cold War. As someone who literally had his finger on the atomic trigger, Zink is uniquely positioned to provide a sense of what it was like to be on the edge of nuclear war. Having received a PhD in moral philosophy from Oxford University, he has since joined the calls for nuclear disarmament.

Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Zink on a Day in the Life of a B-52 Navigator

the bomb at 75: Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Zink on a Day in the Life of a B-52 Navigator

the bomb at 75: Dr. Emma Belcher on the Toxic Legacy of Australian Nuclear Testing and the Continuing Nuclear Threat

Dr. William Perry has been involved with American nuclear weapons for almost sixty years—first as a Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton, and now as a passionate opponent seeking their abolition. Having once spearheaded the development of new weaponry for the Pentagon, the current professor emeritus at Stanford University shares his unparalleled insights into nuclear history with Schlosser and Keshari. If Perry is worried about a nuclear apocalypse happening soon, then we should be too.

Dr. William Perry on His Years as Secretary of Defense and Coming-of-Age in the Nuclear Era

the bomb at 75: Dr. William Perry on His Years as Secretary of Defense and Coming-of-Age in the Nuclear Era

Nobel Laureate Beatrice Fihn, the Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), delves into her organization’s efforts to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons. A global leader who has played a pivotal role in the development of the United Nations’ Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, she speaks with over a decade of experience in disarmament diplomacy and civil society mobilisation, as well as a gender perspective on this crucial work.