Letter from Linus Pauling to J. D. Bernal. September 28, 1962. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 2 pp.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Check from LP to Am. Acad. Arts and Sci. for $10.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks: First Western Bank, January 1962-December 1962: Box # 4.027 Folder #27.1] also [Filed under LP Biographical: Check Registers, 1961-1963: Box #4.077 Folder #77.1] 
• Letter from Arthur E. Morgan to LP RE: Requests 6 reprints of “Observations on Aging and Death.” Also encloses a description of a man from India that he is trying to help because he feels that the man could make some significant human history if given a reasonable opportunity. Asks if LP could suggest some people he could approach for help. [Letter from LP to Morgan October 12, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, M: Correspondence, 1962-1964 Box 259, Folder 259.1] 
• Letter from E. Edward Bittar to LP RE: Asks LP to confirm some values for the crystal radii of univalent ions H 1.38, Na 0.95, K 1.33, and C1 1.81. [Letter from Hopkins to Bittar October 1, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, B: Individual Correspondence, 1962-1964 Box 40 Folder 40.1]
• Letter from Jay Holmes Smith to LP RE: Tells LP about a seminar on peace taking place in Patna on December 27 - January 1, and invites LP to attend this seminar before attending the Indian Science Congress from January 3 -7 in Delhi. [Letter from LP to Smith October 24, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, W: Individual Correspondence, 1960-1962 Box 445 Folder 445.3]
• Letter from L. A. Hyland to LP RE: Invites LP to attend the 1963 Engineer’s Week Banquet at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Feb. 20, 1963. Discusses Engineer’s Week and its goal to emphasis the important relationship between engineers and scientists. [Letter from Hopkins to Hyland October 1, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, H: Correspondence, 1961-1962 Box 168 Folder 168.2] 
• Letter from LP to Per-Olov Löwdin and Bernard Pullman RE: LP accepts their invitation and suggests his tentative title “Molecular Orbital Theory and the Structure of Metals and Alloys.” LP will write this with Richard C. LaForce. [Letter from Löwdin and Pullman to LP September 28, 1962, Letter from Pullman to LP October 16, 1962] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: (Manuscripts and Typescripts of Articles by LP, 1963), Box #1963a, Folder #1963a.14]               
• Letter from LP to Professor J.D. Bernal. [Filed under LP Peace: (The Bomb Test Suits, 1962-1964), Box #6.002, Folder #2.1] 

  28 September 1962

  Dear Des:

  You probably know that on 21 June 1962 a complaint for declaratory judgment and injunction was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in the name of about 200 plaintiffs, of whom I was listed as the first, and that on the same day a similar suit, essentially identical, was filed with the Procurator General of the U.S.S.R., by mail. Each suit asked that an injunction be issued against certain people (the Secretary of Defense and the members of the Atomic Energy Commission in the United States, and corresponding people in the Soviet Union), to prevent them from carrying out further explosions of nuclear weapons, and it was suggested that the proviso be included that the injunction should take effect simultaneously with the effective date of the injunction to be issued from the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R., before which Court a similar complaint had been filed (or, in the case of the Soviet complaint, to take effect simultaneously with the effective date of the injunction issued by the United States Court).

  The Executive Secretary of the bomb-test suits is Mr. Ralph B. Atkinson, a chemical engineer, retired, who is a friend of mine. The principal attorney is Dr. Francis Heisler, P. O. Box 3996, Carmel, California.

  We expect that the American suit will be heard in the United Sates District Court for the District of Columbia in a few days.

  Dr. Heisler would like to come to the Soviet Union, in order to discuss the matter of the Soviet suit with the authorities there. He has asked for a visa to enter the Soviet Union for this purpose, but has not succeeded. I wrote to Professor B. S. Nikiforov, Department of Criminal Law, Moscow Law Institute, asking if he would be willing to invite Dr. Heisler, and I also wrote to Professor V. M. Tchkhikvadze, asking if he could help in connection with the issuance of an invitation to Dr. Heisler to come to Moscow to discuss the suits with Professor Nikiforov and others. I have not received any answer to these letters.

  Do you think that there is anything that you could do to help to obtain the invitation to Dr. Heisler to come to the Soviet Union, and a visa in connection with his visit? I would be grateful to you for your help in this matter.

  I may mention that I tried to get some people in the Soviet Union to join as plaintiffs, but without success. We have a few plaintiffs from adjacent countries (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia), but their signatures arrived too late to be included in the original list of plaintiffs.

  Cordially yours,

  [Linus Pauling]

• Letter from LP to Ralph Atkinson, RE: LP’s schedule is still so uncertain this he is not able to commit to a time to visit Atkinson.  LP is enclosing a letter from Professor Bernal and is sending a copy to Heisler.  LP asks Atkinson to send a copy of the Russian and English suits to Professor Infeld.  [Letter from Atkinson September 19, 1962] [Filed under LP Peace:  (The Bomb Test Suits, 1962-1964), Box #6.002, Folder #2.1]
• Letter from LP to Robert W. Taylor RE: Tells Taylor that he feels the manuscript is unsatisfactory due to lack of precise information. Suggests that Taylor take one of the several arguments given and prepare an article on it that includes enough factual evidence to make his argument credible then perhaps expand several articles like this into a book. [Letter from LP to Taylor September 18, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, T:  Correspondence 1956-1963 Box 411, Folder 411.7]               
• Letter from Per-Olov Löwdin and Bernard Pullman to LP RE: Invite LP to contribute to a book on the Molecular Orbital Theory to be published as a tribute to R.S. Mulliken. His contribution should be on any aspect of the molecular orbital theory and his acceptance should be received by October 15, 1962. [Letter from LP to Löwden and Pullman September 28, 1962] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: (Manuscripts and Typescripts of Articles by LP, 1963), Box #1963a, Folder #1963a.14] 
• Letter from S. Kasuga, the United Socialist Union of Japan, to LP RE: Discusses a movement toward an agreement on a cut-off of all nuclear weapons tests by Jan. 1st, 1963 that they are trying to get started. Asks for LP’s help. [Filed under LP Correspondence, U:  Correspondence 1936-1970 Box 421, Folder 421.20]
• Letter from Virginia Durr to AHP, RE: Says that Mrs. West was thrilled about her lovely afternoon spent with AHP.  Requests Jan Symon’s address as she has promised to send her a fascist speech made by Governor Barnett.  Durr is bothered by the vast support in Alabama for the politician despite his fascist qualities. [Filed under AHP materials re: Women and Peace: (Correspondence: Virginia and Clifford Durr, 1961-1993), Box#4.003, Folder#3.1]
• Memorandum from LP to Dr. Richard LaForce RE: LP informs LaForce that he has been asked to contribute a paper to a book on molecular orbital theory as a tribute to R.S. Mulliken and he has suggested a topic as well as that he would like to write it with him. LP hopes this meets LaForce’s approval. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: (Manuscripts and Typescripts of Articles by LP, 1963), Box #1963a, Folder #1963a.14]