Dave Cullen

1 month ago | basicint.org | Dave Cullen

On Monday 1st May 2025 at 10am, BASIC’s Emerging Voices Network (EVN) and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) are hosting a in-person joint side event, ‘Humanitarian Impacts and the NPT: Reflections Toward the 2026 Review Conference‘, at the 2025 Preparatory Committee meeting for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) at United Nations Headquarters, Conference Room A.

2 months ago | basicint.org | Dave Cullen

On Wednesday, 26th February 2025, Dr. Kazuko Hikawa joined BASIC’s Emerging Voices Network (EVN) to deliver an Expert Masterclass on ‘Introduction to the NPT and the Challenges it Faces’. A recording of the event is now publicly available, and should be of interest to all those working in or studying multilateral nuclear affairs.

Oct 23, 2024 | news.wisc.edu | Käri Knutson |Yaa Gyasi |Dave Cullen |Dan Egan

Ever read one of those books that really leaves you thinking? One that has you recommending it to others in part because you think they’ll enjoy it? But also so you’ll have someone to discuss it with? Well, now is your time. Go Big Read, UW–Madison’s common reading program is seeking title suggestions of any book relating to contemporary issues of broad interest to the campus community.Book suggestions can be made on the Go Big Read website through Nov. 13.

Apr 20, 2024 | theguardian.com | Dave Cullen

How could I have known I was writing an origin story? Mass shootings didn’t start at Columbine High School, but the Mass Shooter Era did. The killers’ audacious plan and misread motives multiplied the stakes and inspired wave after wave of emulation. I’ve tried to leave this story so many times, but a diagram I have created of Columbine-inspired attacks torments me, ruthlessly expanding like an unstoppable spider web, devouring all the lives and futures in its path. It demands we address the cause.

Apr 18, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Dave Cullen

Mass shootings didn’t start at Columbine High, but the mass-shooter era did. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold’s audacious plan and misread motives multiplied the stakes and inspired wave after wave of emulation. How could we know we were witnessing an origin story? The legend of Columbine is fiction. There are two versions of the attack: what actually happened on April 20, 1999, and the story we all accepted back then. The mythical version explained it all so cleanly.