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Science For Peace has special reason to rejoice in the award of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor John Polanyi of the University of Toronto. This is the highest honor that can be awarded a member of the world’s scientific community. John Polanyi has combined a record of being a pioneer in research into … Read more Editorial
– Raymond Kapral from the October, 1986 Notices Of The American Mathematical society: “The Department of Defense (DOD) has established a new program called the University Research Initiative(URI) which is designed to strengthen the ability of universities to conduct research and educate graduate and undergraduate students in areas important to national defense.” – Allyn Jackson … Read more Newsworthy
Marc Pilisuk (Dept. of Applied Behavioral Sciences, U. of California, Davis), The Day Before The Day After: Psychological Accommodatins to the Extinction of all Life. The incomprehensibility of the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust and the difficulties in mobilization of action to avoid it are examined as psychological problems. Available from SFP. Review: Anatol Rapoport, … Read more Bookshelf
For study and research of issues relating principally to arms control, disarmament, defence or conflict resolution, abroad or in Canada; Two awards at $25,000 each, five at $14,000, for one year’s study — award holders may reapply; For first University degree holders who are citizens or landed immigrants; Apply: Scholarship administration Services, Association of Universities … Read more Announcing the CIIPS Award
THE ENIGMA of exactly what happened at Reykjavik from a scientific peacemaking standpoint seems to revolve around the relative weight attached by President Reagan to the pursuit of his concept of a missile-proof shield against the threat of Soviet ballistic missiles, against the cost of sacrificing the opportunity for drastic reductions in the number and … Read more President's Corner