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+_ 78,378 SF Corporate Conference Center
FOR SALE
PROPERTY HIGHLIGHTS ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
• Two Interconnected Buildings Totaling 78,378 SF
• Two-story Building Featuring Main Entrance Lobby/Foyer; Multiple Conference & Training Rooms;
Administrative Offices; Fitness Center; Dining Room; Commercial Kitchen; and Outdoor
Patio/Courtyard.
• Three-story Building Featuring 20 Single Guest Rooms and 20 Guest Suites; Multiple Conference &
Training Rooms; and Two Game Rooms.
• 12.23 Acres of Land with 750.89’ of Frontage on Route 33/Memorial Drive.
• Onsite Parking for 200+ Vehicles, including 3 Electric-charging Stations.
• Located at the “Crossroads of New England” between I-91 and the Mass Pike; 3 hours from New York
City; 90 minutes from Boston; and 30 minutes from Hartford, CT and Bradley International Airport.
This versatile property can support a variety of uses including healthcare, education, assisted living, hotel, office, or continued use as a conference and training center.
$8,300,000
350 Memorial Drive, Chicopee, MA
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Weapons
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what’s going to happen to every major city in both countries. In addition, the entire economic infrastruc- ture of the country would be destroyed; we would see 200 million to 400 million dead in the first afternoon,
“ but those who survived would be living in an environ-
Our current policy — maintaining these enormous arsenals with the expectation that they will never be used — is nothing more than the hope for continued good luck. And this is a fairly insane basis for national security policy. We need to plan for the future based on reality, not hopes and prayers.”
organization of physicians, other health profession- als, and others who are concerned about the medical consequences of nuclear war. Started in 1978, the organization has a stated mission to educate the public and decision makers about those medical con- sequences, “in the hope that a better-educated public and a better-educated body of decision-makers would make smarter decisions about nuclear weapons than they have been making, unfortunately,” said Helfand.
The group is part of an organization called the In-
to nuclear weapons, and as noted earlier, it is using the crush of current events to state its case and bring the issue to the fore — or back to the fore.
“For the past 30 years, since the end of the Cold War, the biggest obstacle we’ve faced in doing our work has been the fact that people had thought the nuclear danger had gone away,” Helfand explained. “Back in the ’80s, everyone understood that nuclear war was a real threat; people were concerned about
it, and they took political action to try to end the
Cold War, work that was ultimately successful. But when the Cold War ended, everyone assumed that the danger had passed, and they stopped paying attention to the issue.
“That has changed dramatically in the past few months since Putin invaded Ukraine and issued a series of very explicit nuclear threats,” he went on. “Which, by the way, were responded to by NATO with equally inappropriate nuclear threats.”
Elaborating, Helfand said the current events in Ukraine bring new meaning to sentiments expressed in a quote he attributed to Robert McNamara, U.S. Defense secretary during the Vietnam War.
“He said, famously, ‘we lucked out — it was only luck that prevented nuclear war,’” noted Helfand, adding that have been countless times over the past 77 years when the world almost experienced nuclear war, but didn’t, for reasons that have little to do with the conventional wisdom regarding these weapons.
“There has been this myth, with enormous power attached to it, that nuclear weapons are so terrible that they will deter their own use — no one will ever
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ment with no electric grid, no healthcare system, no internet, no food-distribution system — none of the things we rely on to survive.”
Beyond all of this, there would be enormous effects on climate, he said, noting that perhaps 150 million tons of soot would be deposited into the atmosphere, blocking out the sun, and dropping temperatures across the planet an average of 18 degrees Fahrenheit “which is much colder than the coldest moment of the last ice age.”
Preventing such a calamity has long been the goal of Physicians for Social Responsibility, a national
ternational Federation for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IFPNW), which has affiliates in 55 countries. In 1997, the IFPNW started a global campaign to abolish nuclear weapons, which, in collaboration with some state governments, led to the adoption at the United Nations in 2017 of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which entered into force in Janu- ary 2021.
Marshalling Forces
In recent months, the IFPNW has been increasing- ly active in pushing toward its goal of bringing an end