Sunday, November 1, 2026

David Cortright and William D. Hartung

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David Cortright is a leading scholar and practitioner of nonviolent social change movements, including serving as executive director of SANE, the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy in the 1980s, and the co-founder of Win Without War in 2002. William D. Hartung is a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and an expert on the arms trade, Pentagon spending and strategy, and nuclear weapons policy. His books include "The Trillion Dollar War Machine," and "Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex."

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