Jeffrey Patterson, Professor in Family Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, WI and former president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, delivered a lecture on the health effects of radiation and the power of the nuclear industrial complex in controlling information. Patterson was introduced by Hoyt Long, Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of Chicago.

This symposium was sponsored by the Committee on Japanese Studies, the Center for East Asian Studies, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Human Rights Program, and the Program on the Global Environment at the University of Chicago, and DePaul University.