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"The Danger of Nuclear War and the Need for a Crash Program for Peace" Page 1. November 24, 1957
"The Danger of Nuclear War and the Need for a Crash Program for Peace" November 24, 1957. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 16 pp.

Activity Listings

  • Check from AHP to A.C.L.U. of Southern California for $18.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2]
  • Handwritten note from Edwin B. Wilson to LP, RE: Says that he is glad to hear from LP and discusses the new rules devised by Stanley. Says that they had a good meeting in New York at the Rockefeller and that they have increased their numbers from 15 to 30. Tells LP that he is returning his appeal unsigned because he has a habit of not signing such things and because he does not like taking a public position on things he does not know about. Discusses his paper on the Academy Program and says that some of his audience thought that he was going to take a position on the cause of lung cancer from cigarettes, but instead that he stuck to what he knew. [Letter from LP to Wilson, December 5, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Individual Correspondence. (Williams, J. W. - Wyman)), Box #438, Folder #438.4]
  • Letter from C.F. Kettering to LP RE: States that he does not know enough on the matter of nuclear testing to have an opinion about it. [Filed under LP Safe Contents: Drawer 2, Folder 2.001]
  • Letter from David M. Dennison to LP RE: Says that he feels it would be very wise to have an agreement to halt testing of nuclear weapons, but that he doesn't feel he has enough direct scientific knowledge about the effects of fallout to sign the Appeal. [Filed under LP Safe Contents: Drawer 2, Folder 2.001]
  • Letter from Dr. Roger Guillemin, Associate Professor, Baylor University College of Medicine, to LP RE: Thanks him for an article on proteins. Comments on structures of oxytocin and the lecture series at Harvard by du Vigneaud that talked about the structures. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence, 1957), #141.1]
  • Letter from E.A. Doisy to LP RE: Says that he cannot sign the Appeal, and gives his reasons for not signing. [Filed under LP Safe Contents: Drawer 2, Folder 2.001]
  • Letter from E.V. Murphree to LP RE: Says that he agrees with the general idea behind the Appeal, but that he cannot sign it because he doesn't think it will be effective considering the way things stand at the time. [Filed under LP Safe Contents, Drawer 2 Folder 2.001]
  • Letter from Hisaichiro Okonogi to LP RE: Sends a list of signatures for the Appeal at the request of Professor Taketani. Labeled number 105. Handwritten note in top right corner, "(105- not submitting sigs)." [Filed under LP Safe Contents, Drawer 3 Folder 3.004]
  • Letter from Hugh H. Brook to LP, RE: Brook is enclosing a copy of Peace News which draws attention to the appeal by scientists. Brook would be grateful if LP could keep him informed or any developments in the Appeal campaign. [Filed under LP Peace: (An Appeal by Scientists to the Governments and People of the World, 1957-1959), Box #5.002, Folder #2.1]
  • Letter from John L. Dusseau, Vice President & Editor, W.B. Saunders Company, to LP RE: Invites LP to work with Dr. Arthur Grollman on a modern book about the metabolism of tissue change, to be modeled after Chemical Pathology by H. Gideon Wells. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence, 1957), #98.22]
  • Letter from Pierre Morel, Scientific Attaché at the French Embassy to LP RE: Thanks him for his letter containing information on chemistry classes offered at Cal Tech. Informs him that he is forwarding it to the French Ministry of National Education. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1957), #257.2]
  • Letter from R. Eker to LP RE: Encloses signatures of Norwegian scientists for the Appeal. Labeled number 129. [Filed under LP Safe Contents, Drawer 3 Folder 3.004]
  • Letter from Ruth Hughes, Secretary to LP, to Kiril Bratanov, RE: LP has asked Hughes to write to Bratanov to thank him for the group of signatures that he sent. LP expects to make a public statement about the appeal either before Christmas of early in the New Year. LP is also asking if Bratanov can again try and collect more signatures. [Letter from LP to Bratanov February 5, 1958] [Filed under LP Peace: (An Appeal by Scientists to the Governments and People of the World, 1957-1959), Box #5.002, Folder #2.1]
  • Letter from Sumio Umezawa to LP RE: Sends signatures for the Appeal, and explains that almost all of the Professors and Assistant Professors of the Engineering, Applied Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering Departments signed. Labeled number 98. [Filed under LP Safe Contents, Drawer 3 Folder 3.004]
  • Letter from Takao Mine to LP RE: Encloses signatures for the Appeal from the Faculty of Engineering, Nagoya University. Labeled number 114. [Letter from Mine to LP December 10, 1957] [Filed under LP Safe Contents, Drawer 3 Folder 3.004]
  • Memorandum from Ivan M. Ponedel to R.B. Gilmore, cc: LP RE: Executed Contract Resume for Contract No. Nonr-220(05) indicating Amendment No. 11 which extends the contract form one year at a cost of $100,000. [Filed under LP Science: (Office of Naval Research: Correspondence, Memoranda, Notes and Assorted Materials re: "The Structure and Properties of Proteins and Synthetic Polypeptides," Contract Nonr 220(05) (Chemistry 32), 1951-1963), Box #14.032, Folder #32.2]