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Nuclear disarmament.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Candace Widmer papers

 Collection
Identifier: 7858
Abstract

Collection contains minutes and agendas of the Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace & Justice mailed to Widner from January 1984 through May 1988, logistics for the July 29-August 1, 1983 action and protest, notes and correspondence of the Ithaca Women's Affinity Group, and 2 news stories about the camp (1983, 1984).

Dates: 1983-1988.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Candace Widmer papers

Faculty Committee on the Nuclear Peril lectures

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064692373]
Identifier: 11-8-695
Scope and content

Typewritten texts of lectures on the dangers of nuclear weapons and the prospects for nuclear disarmament, sponsored by the Faculty Committee on the Nuclear Peril at Cornell in 1962. Speakers (some of them Cornell faculty, others from other institutions) included Hans A. Bethe, Cyril L. Comar, Seymour Melman, Herman Kahn, Louis B. Sohn, John Coleman Bennett, and William C. Foster.

Dates: 1962.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Faculty Committee on the Nuclear Peril lectures

Hans Albrecht Bethe oral histories

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065186649]
Identifier: 14-22-2521
Scope and content Oral history interviews with Hans Bethe conducted by Charles Weiner and Jagdish Mehra on Oct. 27-28, 1966, Nov. 17, 1967, and May 8-9, 1972. Subjects include natural radioactivity; ideas of nuclear constitution, size in 1920s; Gamow-Condon-Gurney theory of alpha decay, 1928; discovery of the neutron, 1932; Cambridge as a center of research, 1933; early theories of nuclear forces; analysis of short-range nuclear forces, 1935-1940; reasons for writing Reviews of Modern Physics review...
Dates: 1966-1981.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Hans Albrecht Bethe oral histories

Lewis L. Lorwin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 5152
Abstract

Consist chiefly of reports and agendas of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, correspondence, studies and reports regarding international relations, the world economy and trade unions throughout the world, especially in postwar Europe

Dates: 1936 - 1971
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / Lewis L. Lorwin Papers

Thomas Eisner papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 21-45-3785
Scope and content Vita, profiles, and other biographical materials; photographs alone and with others; reprints of writings, 1952-2008; writings, published and unpublished, on environmental issues including Lignum Vitae Key, Big Thicket National Park, the Congressional Fellow Program, the Endangered Species Act, and chemical prospecting, as well as world population, nuclear weapons/disarmament, and human rights. Bound volume of reprints on ultraviolet absorbtion, reflection and viewing and bound volume of...
Dates: 1952-2011.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Thomas Eisner papers

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