project for genocide

1. By Isaac Wright

2. Michael Douglas
family and life background
 Michael Douglas has been involved in movie production since
the early 1975’s.
 He has won 3 golden globes and two academy awards.
 Douglas was born in New Brunswick New Jersey
 His paternal grandparents, Harry Demsky and Bryna Demsky
were Jewish immigrants from Gomel in Belarus.
 His mother and maternal grandparents, Lieutenant Colonel
Thomas Melville Dill and Ruth Rapalje Neilson, were natives
of Devonshire Bermuda.
 Thomas Dill served as Attorney General of Bermuda and was
commanding officer of the Bermada military artillery
 Douglas has a younger brother, Joel Douglas and two paternal
half-brothers, Peter Douglas and Eric Douglas

3. Family background
continued
 He attended the Allen-Stevenson School
and many other schools and colleges.
 Douglas married Diandra Luker on
March 20, 1977, after 6 weeks of dating.
 They later divorced and remarried to
Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones.
 It was announced on August
16, 2010, that Douglas was suffering
from throat cancer.

4. Issue of involvement.
 Michael Douglas is an activists who wants to be nuclear
free.
 Over 5 decades after world war 2 over 2,000 nuclear
bombs were tested in over 60 countries.
 The sites are going to be uninhabited for at least another
thousand years from all the radioactivity
 the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty opened for
signature in 1996 will help prevent the use of nuclear
weapons
 Over 180 countries are involved in the treaty but the ban
cannot become into effect until nuclear-technology holder
countries ratify.
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5. Why is he involved
 Michael Douglas got involved in the idea of a nuclear
free world by a stem from his childhood set in the
cold war arms race
 Michael remembers when he lived in California and
they had regular bomb drills.
 He isn’t only against the weapons but also the
plants. For example look at the nuclear meltdown in
Japan
 The treaty is against any use of nuclear substances
anywhere and everywhere.
 It prohibits the use of nuclear weapons and the
development of nuclear sites.
 The sites that are already there will stay there but no
more will be built if it is passed.

6. Risks of nuclear weaponry and
plants
 Michael doesn’t receive very many risks
on himself but in general the fact and use
of nuclear weapons are enough.
 If the treaty doesn’t pass then we could get
bombed one day.
 Even what happened in Japan with the
nuclear factory exploding. that could
happen to us.
 Terrorists using nuclear weapons against
the U.S is something I would never think
would happen but it definitely could.

7. Michaels impact
 Michael Douglas is a very big name and has a
lot of money so it makes sense that he can
help a lot.
 Could prevent if treaty is passed of nuclear
weapons use.
 Could save many lives by passing this treaty.
 The plants are being made much more
defensive against natural disasters and
quicker alarms
 The plants are being developed to recover
their waste products when an emergency
happens like Japan

8. Issue today
 In May 1955, the United Nations Disarmament Commission brought
together the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, and
the Soviet Union to begin ending nuclear weapons testing.
 In 1962 we learned a lot of lessons from the Cuban missile crisis.
 On July 25 1963 John F Kennedy signed an agreement to not fire
nuclear weapons into space or the water.
 The treaty will hopefully be done by this Friday which will mean there
will be hundreds of nuclear missiles are going to be destroyed but that
was in march 2010.
 The U.S has more than 1,200 nuclear warheads right now and russia
has almost 3,000 warheads.
 285 of the 337 of the worlds nuclear weapons factory are being closed
or at least limited.
 Schools don’t have to do bomb tests or hide under the desks or have a
fallout shelter.
 All because people are trying to make it harder and less likely to ever
use nuclear warheads again.

9. What can we gain from this
persons effort and desire
 We gain many different things with this
persons life.
 Michael puts forth a lot of time and money into
something he really wants done.
 People get desires from when they are little
children and he had to grow up in that era.
 So he wants to change what children and
teens have to go through.
 Michael makes multi-millions a year on movie
production and he uses his time and resources
to help make the world a safer place.