Month: January 1985

Doreen Morton, a member who has faithfully typed the Bulletin since its inception, has gone into business: AFT Word Processing, “today’s secretarial service”. Those wanting to make use of her services should contact her at 279 Palmerston Ave., Toronto M6J 2J3 (tel. 416-924-5287) after office hours or on weekends. S4P members George Ignatieff and Norman … Read more Members in the news

Bill Eckhardt has responded enthusiastically to our research directors’ appeal for a survey of ongoing research by Science for Peace members, enclosing several interesting papers which he would be willing to send at no charge to any interested members of Science for Peace. He is writing a book on the nature of war, which he … Read more Scientific Research

All our members are no doubt aware of Canada’s vote against the freeze proposal put before the United Nations, both at the political affairs committee, where it passed by a vote of 111 to 12 and subsequently in the General Assembly, where the vote was 129 for vs. 12 against. Between the two votes, Science … Read more Notes

A recent speaker at the University College and Science for Peace lecture series was Major General Leonard Johnson, former commandant of Canada’s National Defence, College in Kingston, Ontario. A member of the International Generals for Peace and Disarmament, he discussed Canada’s commitment to NATO pointing out that of the 2.6 million land forces in Europe, … Read more General calls NATO role into question

UC-S4P Lectures: West Hall, Univ. College, U of T, at 8 p.m. Jan 23 – Kenneth Hare (Trinity College, U of T); Feb. 28 – Henry Wiseman (Guelph Univ.); Mar. 25 – Noam Chomsky (USA). HILLCREST FOR PEACE (Toronto) starts a seminar series in January with a discussion led by U of T Economist Mel … Read more Calendar

The National Research Council of the USA reports (Toronto Star, Nov. 27, 1984) that the U.S. stockpile of aging, militarily useless and extremely. dangerous chemical weapons stored at eight army bases is leaking. The stockpile will have to be destroyed in the next decade or two at a cost of $2 to $4 billion (US). … Read more Quotes

The members’ publications listed in the fall, 1984 Bulletin are still available from Science for Peace office., Dian Cohen & Kristin Shannon, The Next Canadian Economy, 1984, Eden Press, 203 pages, $9.95. Bhupendra Jasani & Christopher Lee, Countdown to Space War, 1984, a SIPRI publication, 110 pages, $10. Order from Taylor & Francis, Inc. 242 … Read more For your bookshelf

With this issue of the Bulletin, Brydon Gombay takes over as editor from Edward Barbeau (Math, U of T), who has served since the inception of the Bulletin. Ed wants to think through alternative ways of working for peace. Brydon was secretary of S4P last year, has previously edited and written for journals. Since Science … Read more The President's Corner

From poet member Murray Wilton (Toronto) When all the guns and all the ships And the missiles laden with hate Are tied with ribbon like a mortgage paid — Then burnt as a consecrate. When all the Pentagons and all the Kremlins And all the dictators soliciting salutes Are told to take their uniforms off … Read more Greetings of the Season for Peace among Nations and the Betterment of the Human Condition

The Council of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto passed the following resolution on September 24, 1984: As members of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, we wish to express our professional concern over the unprecedented threat to life and health posed by nuclear weapons, a threat that hangs over hundreds … Read more Faculty of Medicine resolution