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Madison360: UW grad went from nuclear wonk to protester

Roger Molander, a 1963 nuclear engineering graduate of the UW-Madison, had what you might call the mother of mid-career epiphanies. Molander, who died recently at 71, was an influential nuclear arms analyst in the White House and Pentagon during the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations only to become one of the nation?s most prominent nuclear arms protesters.