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Dr. Gwynne Dyer, (Canada/UK)
Born and raised in St. John's, Newfoundland, Dyer earned a BA in history at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and MA in military history at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and a PhD in military and Middle Eastern history at Kings College, University of London. He served in the naval reserves of Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, and taught war studies at Oxford and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst before abandoning academic life in favour of a full-time career in journalism. His first major project was a seven-part radio series, Seven Faces of Communism, which he produced for the CBC and ABC in 1978. A six-part radio series called War followed in1981, and led to an invitation from the National Film Board of Canada to produce a seven-part film series, also called War. The series appeared in 1983, and one of its parts was nominated for an Academy Award. The series was broadcast in forty-five countries. War reflected Dyer's deep concern about technology, its impact on warfare and the growing threat of nuclear annihilation. It was filmed in ten countries and included interviews with top level NATO and Warsaw Pact military leaders. In it, Dyer argued that technology and nuclear weapons had changed the very nature of war, creating a threat so grave that it could be countered only by the total elimination of all nuclear arsenals. In 1986 the National Film Board of Canada released Dyer's next production, The Defence of Canada, which questioned Canada's position in NATO and NORAD, and in 1988-90 Dyer produced The Gorbachev Revolution, a six-part radio series on the spectacular changes unfolding in eastern Europe. In 1994 his series The Human Race was broadcast nationally on the CBC. He is the author of eight books, the most recent of which is Climate Wars (2008), an inquiry into the potential military implications of global warming.
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War (1985) Columns By Silver Donald Cameron about Gwynne Dyer In Dyer Straits (Halifax Sunday Herald, November 15, 2009)
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Gwynne Dyer, PhD, OC, is an internationally-celebrated independent author, columnist and broadcaster based in London. His syndicated column on international affairs is published in more than 175 newspapers in at least 45 countries. Ironically, it is published in very few newspapers in his native Canada, where the owners of the leading chains (and the governing political party) do not appreciate Dyer's clear-eyed observation of the Arab-Israeli conflict. 
