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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: PSR: Manhattan Project II
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- /** psr.bulletins: 51.0 **/
- ** Topic: Manhattan Project II December 1 **
- ** Written 11:50 am Nov 19, 1992 by psrnatl in cdp:psr.bulletins **
- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:
- Emily Green November 13, 1992
- 202/785-3777
-
- M E D I A A D V I S O R Y
-
- MANHATTAN PROJECT SCIENTISTS MARK 50TH ANNIVERSARY
- WITH CALL FOR NEW POLICIES ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS
-
- WHAT: Luncheon and policy briefing sponsored by the Manhattan
- Project II, a project of Physicians for Social Responsibility
- (PSR), on the occasion of the first atomic chain reaction created
- by the original Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago.
- PSR will release a White Paper on the Manhattan Project II and its
- nine major policy prescriptions for reducing the numbers of
- nuclear weapons and the threat of nuclear proliferation. The
- policy paper is designed to provide essential information and
- policy options for the Clinton Administration and the 103rd
- Congress.
-
- WHO: Dr. Joseph Rotblat, London, England -- the only scientist
- to resign from the Manhattan Project when intelligence missions
- revealed in 1944 that Hitler was unable to build the bomb. Dr.
- Rotblat will receive the prestigious 1992 Albert Einstein Peace
- Prize in Chicago on December 2. He is also the President of the
- Pugwash Conferences for Science and World Affairs.
-
- Dr. Bernard Feld, Professor of Physics, MIT --
- assistant to Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard in the
- Manhattan Project and former editor of the
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
-
- Dr. Robert Jay Lifton -- President of the Center
- on Violence and Human Survival and Distinguished
- Professor of Psychiatry at CUNY. He is a winner
- of the National Book Award and author, among other
- works, of Death in Life: The Survivors of
- Hiroshima; Indefensible Weapons; and The Nazi
- Doctors.
-
- Dr. Daniel Ellsberg -- former Defense and State
- Department official who drafted the Kennedy
- Administration guidance for the nuclear war plans,
- and released the Pentagon Papers to Congress and
- the New York Times. He is the founder and
- director of the Manhattan Project II at Physicians
- for Social Responsibility.
-
- WHEN: Tuesday, December 1, 1992 12:00 - 2:30 PM
-
- WHERE: Rayburn House Office Building, Room B339
-
- WHY: In response to ongoing threats of nuclear proliferation
- and regional nuclear wars, PSR founded the Manhattan Project II,
- an international campaign that brings the same urgency to the
- effort to end the threat of nuclear war that marked the original
- project. That historic undertaking researched, built, tested and
- delivered the world's first atomic bombs between 1942-1945.
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- Physicians for Social Responsibility is a national organization of
- over 25,000 health professionals and supporters in more than 120
- chapters working to promote arms control, international
- cooperation, and environmental protection.
- ** End of text from cdp:psr.bulletins **
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