Boston 2019

101 Years Since WWI

Light

• X Days of X Risk by Raymond Arnold ◦ Six (or more) ways the world could end
• The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be ◦ by Tom Lehrer ◦ A lighthearted take on the development of nuclear weapons
• Her Mysteries by Allison Lonsdale ◦ A hymn to the Goddess for math and physics majors.
• The Goddess of Everything Else (Abridged) by Scott Alexander
• Uplift by Andrew Eigel ◦ Human progress, from stone tools to space colonies
• We Will All Go Together When We Go by Tom Lehrer ◦ A darkly humurous silver lining for mushroom clouds

Intermission

Twilight

• Somebody Will by Sassafrass ◦ I can't solve the entire problem, but I can contribute, and trust my tribe to go the rest of the way
• Time Wrote the Rocks by Cat Faber ◦ Truth is found in the world
• Hymn to the Breaking Strain by Rudyard Kipling ◦ Abide the twin damnation, to fail and know we fail

Darkness

• Henry Williamson's Letter Home
• Christmas in the Trenches ◦ by John McCutcheon ◦ The Christmas truce and the humanity of our enemies
• Henry Williamson on Christmas Aftermath
• Joseph Rotblat on the Development of Nuclear Weapons
• Vadim Orlov on How Close We Came to Nuclear War
• Brighter Than Today by Raymond Arnold ◦ Our central anthem of hope, starting from the invention of fire

Light

• Unison in Harmony ◦ by Coope, Boyes, and Simpson ◦ Joyful unity across nations
• Old Devil Time by Pete Seeger ◦ A boast of coming collective victory over time, fear, pain and hate