Salem Peace Lecture to discuss nuclear weapons abolition

This year’s Salem Peace Lecture will return to the subject that helped create the series in the first place: nuclear weapons abolition. 

The annual lecture at Willamette University, held Wednesday, features Dr. Ira Helfand, who’s on the board of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN, which received the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.

In the late 1980s, the nonprofit Salem Peace Plaza formed in-part due to movements inspired by the 1983 movie “The…