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Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, 1873-2013

12. Peace. 1945-1994.

This section has been partitioned into eight thematic sub-sections that illustrate Linus Pauling's manifold interests in topics of peace and humanism. The Peace holdings include manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, notes, meeting minutes, non-Pauling publications and other ephemera reflecting the numerous concerns addressed by the Paulings and the international peace movement from the mid-1940s to the mid-1990s. Prominent items include the three-volume bound Bomb-Test Petition to the United Nations, for which Pauling received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1963, as well as a sizeable trove of materials related to Pauling's membership in the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists (ECAS), formed by Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard at the conclusion of World War II. Much of the ECAS content has been digitized and is available for patron use upon request.


141 boxes

5. Nuclear Bomb Test and Proliferation Petitions.

Boxes 5.011 - 5.018 (Page: 11 - 18)


5.011. An Appeal to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, 1961.


11.1.
Typescript: "An Appeal to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons", first draft, January 6, 1961.
11.2.
Typescript: "An Appeal to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons", second draft, January 6, 1961.
11.3.
Galley Proof: "An Appeal to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons", February 7, 1961.
11.4.
Materials re: Press Release "A United Nations Petition Against the Spread of Nuclear Weapons", February 16, 1961.
11.5.
LP Notes: "Notes on Meeting Feb. 23, 1961".
11.6.
Typescript: Press Release "An Appeal to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons", February 28, 1961.
11.7.
Assorted Notes re: An Appeal to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, 1961.
11.8.
Galley Proof: "An Appeal to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons", February 20, 1961.
11.9.
Cover Letters for Petition Forms, January - March, 1961.
11.10.
Correspondence: Dag Hammarskjöld, United Nations, 1961.
11.11.
Press Release: "Petition to the United Nations to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons", November 9, 1961.
11.12.
Index Cards with Names and Countries of Residence of Potential Petition Signers, 1961.

5.012. Correspondence re: circulation and signing of An Appeal to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, January - March, 1961.


12.1.
Correspondence re: circulation and signing of An Appeal to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, January 1961.
12.2.
Correspondence re: circulation and signing of An Appeal to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, February 1961.
12.3.
Correspondence re: circulation and signing of An Appeal to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, March 1 - March 15, 1961.
12.4.
Correspondence re: circulation and signing of An Appeal to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, March 16 - March 31, 1961.

5.013. Correspondence re: circulation and signing of An Appeal to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, April - December, 1961.


13.1.
Correspondence re: circulation and signing of An Appeal to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, April - August, 1961.
13.2.
Correspondence re: circulation and signing of An Appeal to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, September - December, 1961.
13.3.
Correspondence re: circulation and signing of An Appeal to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, No Date. [1961].
13.4.
Materials re: Endorsements of An Appeal to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, made by assorted peace groups, 1961.
13.5.
Yellow buttons reading "I Signed the Peace Treaty", No Date.

5.014. Materials re: petition signers, Australia - Libya, 1961.


14.1.
Materials re: petition signers - Australia, Belgium, Burma, Ceylon, Czechoslovakia, Cypress, 1961.
14.2.
Materials re: petition signers - Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Columbia, 1961.
14.3.
Materials re: petition signers - Canada, 1961.
14.4.
Materials re: petition signers - China, 1961.
14.5.
Materials re: petition signers - Denmark, Germany, Haiti, Hungary, 1961.
14.6.
Materials re: petition signers - Ecuador, Finland, 1961.
14.7.
Materials re: petition signers - France, Ghana, Liberia, Libya, 1961.

5.015. Materials re: petition signers, Great Britain - Yugoslavia, 1961.


15.1.
Materials re: petition signers - Great Britain, Ireland, 1961.
15.2.
Materials re: petition signers - Iceland, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, 1961.
15.3.
Materials re: petition signers - Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, 1961.
15.4.
Materials re: petition signers - Mexico, Norway, Panama, Peru, Poland, 1961.
15.5.
Materials re: petition signers - Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Union of South Africa, Yugoslavia, 1961.

5.016. Materials re: petition signers, USA, USSR, Nobel Laureates, 1961.


16.1.
Materials re: petition signers - USA, 1961.
16.2.
Materials re: petition signers - USA, 1961.
16.3.
Materials re: petition signers - USSR, 1961.
16.4.
Materials re: petition signers - Nobel Laureates, 1961.

5.017. Assorted Materials re: An Appeal to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons.


17.1.
Photo Negatives of An Appeal to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons.
17.2.
Typescripts, Draft Correspondence: Draft Agreement on Cessation of Nuclear and Thermonuclear Weapon Tests, November 28, 1961.
17.3.
Commemorative Drafts of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, affixed with John F. Kennedy, United Nations and Atoms for Peace postage stamps from first day of issue, May 29, 1964.
17.4.
Blank petition forms.
17.5.
Blank petition forms.

5.018. Materials re: A Call for a Comprehensive Test Ban, 1989; Assorted Materials re: comprehensive test ban treaty, 1981-1987.


18.1.
Correspondence, Petitions re: A Call for a Comprehensive Test Ban, 1989.
18.2.
Assorted Materials re: comprehensive test ban treaty, 1981-1987.