Panel asks: "Should the United States bomb Iraq?"

Posted 04/19/98

An outstanding panel of experts on military affairs will examine the question "Should the United States Bomb Iraq?" on Monday, Feb. 23. at 7 p.m. in the Hinman Forum, Rockefeller Center. The event is free and open to the public.

The panelists will be William Arkin, author of 10 books on military and nuclear weapons matters, a consultant to both peace groups and intelligence agencies, and considered to be one of the more informed critics of the Gulf War; Assistant Professor of Government Robert Pape, author of Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War (Cornell University Press, 1996); and Thomas Powers, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, contributing editor to The Atlantic, and author of Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (Alfred Knopf, 1993). The moderator will be Michael Mastanduno, associate professor of government and director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding.

A reception will follow in the 1930 Room of Rockefeller Center. The event is being sponsored by the Dickey Center and the NH/VT Chapter of the World Federalist Association.