Peter Ediger's Meeting Summary

Peter Ediger was important to the Nevada test site because he was one of the founding committee members of the Pace e Bene which was a nonviolence service. His committee was in charge of fighting against the test site to try and stop the bombing going on. Ediger and three other people, Louis Vitale, Alain Richard, and Julia Occhiogrosso, started the committee in the mid-eighties and got groups of people together to shut down the Nevada test site. Ediger is a religious man, which many people were during that time. He main ideal was that God did not want the test site to do what it was doing because it was harming his followers. Before Ediger arrived on the scene there were some protest going on against the test site. These people were the citizens …show more content…
The interviewer is Suzanne Becker and she does an adequate job of staying on point to the issue being discussed. It helps that the interviewee is so passionate and involved with the fight against the Nevada test site. Ediger wants to talk about his role in stopping nuclear testing as much as possible because he wants it to be known that nuclear testing is unmoral and unchristian. Ediger states that hi committee was not directly related with the closing down of the testing site but he likes to believe that his committee had a large part in doing so. Becker did well on her part because her questions were thought provoking. Her questions went straight to the point on who Ediger worked for and how his committee was involved in shutting down the Nevada test site. Compared to other interviewers, she did not go off topic too much and she did not spend too much time on Ediger’s upbringing. The main focus of Becker’s interview was to find out Ediger’s role in the Nevada test site and she did an adequate job. Ediger talked about going to Russia during their nuclear convention which was interesting to see their point of view. The reason America had that testing site was because America was in a missile race against Russia. It is interesting to see that Americans went to the “enemy” to see why they wanted to stop their nuclear testing. According to Ediger, Russia had many of the same reasons America had to stop the nuclear testing and Ediger stated that they even picked up a few ideas from Russia’s nuclear convention. Some issues that were left out of the interview was the government reason for shutting down the test site, why other people not in the Pace e Bene wanted the test site to be shut down and the effects the radiation had on the surrounding people. Ediger focused on his religious beliefs in the interview which most people would disagree with. Some people would not think God had anything to