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Family friends, colleagues and members of Science for Peace celebrated George Ignatieff’s seventy-fifth birthday on December 16, 1988 in the Combinations room of Trinity College. Dr George Eastman, bursar at … Read more George Ignatieff at 75
The following papers are available from Derek Paul, Director of Publications, Physics Dept., University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 1A7 W. Dorn and D. Paul (June 1988) The brief of Science … Read more Publications available
Understanding War, by John McMurtry was published this month. It is a paperback, available to members of SfP at $5 free of postage for multiple copies. “The human struggle for … Read more New Book
Bob Russell who is on sabbatical leave from Simon Fraser at Imperial College reports on the 2nd international conference where he and Eric Fawcett represented SfP:
The Board of the Franz Blumenfeld Peace Fund has awarded Mr A. Walter Dorn $750 as support for his efforts to bring about a workshop on the Control of Chemical … Read more Blumenfeld Peace Fund Award
SPIN was launched in 1985, and now includes some 40 organizations. Its principal objective is the exchange of literature among these organizations, but over time several resource organizations have also … Read more Science for Peace International Network
Experts from Canada and other nations will be invited to a one-day workshop on the control of chemical and biological weapons (CBW) April 5, 1989 at the Croft Chapter House, … Read more Workshop on the Control of Chemical and Biological Weapons
An appeal for financial aid for the scientific community of Armenia was adopted unanimously at the December 15 meeting of the Board of Directors of Science for Peace in Toronto. … Read more Armenian relief and reconstruction
Mike Wallace has written on the submarine issue to stimulate SfP to develop a position with substantial support from members. The following is a brief version of a longer paper being circulated among he chapters. It will also appear in the publications of the IPPNW.
In 1985 SfP held a conference of European Security Requirements and the MBFR talks. In addition to organizing the conference, Derek Paul edited the proceedings published by Taylor and Francis, London under the title Defending Europe, Options for Security. Many of the ideas expressed at the conference and in the book have now become much more widely circulated. The September 1988 a special supplement to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists was devoted to the subject. Mike Pearson has reviewed this for the SfP Bulletin: