Mohamed ElBaradei talks to Jon Snow

May 16th, 2011

Dr Elbaradei in discussion with Jon Snow at the Hay Festival

The WMD Awareness Programme was once more proud to work with the Hay Festival to host the Joseph Rotblat Memorial Lecture.

Dr Elbaradei, beamed in live form Cairo by satellite, was in discussion with Jon Snow. They discussed his book, The Age of Deception – Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times, a very undiplomatic book as Jon Snow described it, as well as the ‘Arab Spring’ and the forthcoming election in Egypt and Dr ElBaradei candidacy.

Dr Elbaradei spoke very warmly of Sir Joseph Rotblat and referred often to the need to implement Jo’s vision of a world free of nuclear weapons.  An excellent event that, despite being conducted by satellite, was exceptionally lively with Dr Elbaradei giving forthright and hard hitting answers to both Jon and to questions from among the 700 folk in the audience.

Thank you to Hay Festival and to the wonderful Jon Snow yet again for all the support they have given us in making this a successful event and to Dr Elbaradei for giving his time to take part in this wonderful annual memorial to the Nobel Peace Laureate, Joseph Rotblat.

Carol Naughton pays tribute to the Nobel Peace Laureate, Sir Joseph Rotblat at the Hay Festival