"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.

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Activity Listings

• Letter from Eiji Yamada to LP RE: Sends a list of signatures for the Appeal at the request of Prof. Taketani. Labeled number 122. [Filed under LP Safe Contents, Drawer 3 Folder 3.004]
• Letter from G. Stein to LP RE: Encloses the signatures he was able to obtain. Explains that he was only able to reach scientists in Jerusalem. Says that more signatures may have been obtained elsewhere if he had had more time. Tells LP some of the reasons why people refused to sign. Informs him that the Hebrew translation of the Appeal will take a few more days. Labeled number 90. [Filed under LP Safe Contents, Drawer 3 Folder 3.004]
• Letter from Makisaburo Ogasawara to LP, RE: Tells him that some members of the Nagoya Institute of Technology agreed to it and that they will be sending their signatures directly to him and not through Prof. Taketani. Handwritten note at bottom says "not subm. sigs" and note at top marks it as number 105. [Filed under LP Personal Safe, Drawer 3 Folder 3.003]
• Letter from Masateru Sonoda to LP RE: Sends signatures for the Appeal to stop nuclear testing at the request of Dr. M. Taketani. Labeled number 102. [Filed under LP Safe Contents, Drawer 3 Folder 3.004]
• Letter from Robert H. Wood to LP, RE: Tells LP that he is interested in an academic position at CIT. Explains that he received a B.S. from Caltech and a Ph.D. from Berkeley. Says his thesis was on the heats, free energies, and entropies of the ferrate (VI) and selenide ions. Encloses a list of courses which he took at Berkeley. Explains the work his did at the Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley after receiving his degree. Tells LP that he just started as an instructor at the University of Delaware and discusses the classes that he is teaching. Tells LP about the papers he is writing concerning the correlation of dilution of strong electrolytes in aqueous solutions and the meaning of the temperature dependence of the entropies of non electrolytes in aqueous solutions. Explains to LP the reasons why he would like to teach at Caltech. [Letter from LP to Wood, December 11, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1953-1959.), Box #444, Folder #444.5]
• Note from Orenhoritch to LP RE: Accepts his invitation to speak, states he would like to lecture somewhere around the 15th or 16th of December and he will be giving his lecture in English. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (O: Correspondence, 1957), #300.19]
• Policy Statement of OTC Enterprises RE: Answers questions about the company and what they are working on. Includes copies of newspaper articles about the company and a description of the circular-foil spacecraft that they created. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (O: Correspondence, 1957), #300.19]