Physicians for Social Responsibility, Mid-Peninsula & Stanford Chapter, Prescription for Prevention proceedings 1983

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Physicians for Social Responsibility, Mid-Peninsula & Stanford Chapter, Prescription for Prevention proceedings 1983

Proceedings from a symposium on nuclear war held at Stanford University in October 1983. Speakers included Gordon A. Craig, Admiral Noel A.M. Gaylor, Sidney D. Drell, Erik H. Erikson, Alexander Sakharov, Helen Caldicott, Victor W. Sidel, Melvin Konner, and Robert Karl Manoff.

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Manoff, Robert Karl

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Drell, Sidney D. (Sidney David), 1926-

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American physicist; chairman, International Conference in Honor of Andrei Sakharov, 1981. From the description of Sidney D. Drell miscellaneous papers, 1966-2000. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754871631 Theoretical physicist. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. From the description of Oral history interview with Sidney Drell, 1996 August 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78411867 Biographical Note ...

Sidel, Victor W.

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Konner, Melvin

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Erikson, Erik H. (Erik Homburger), 1902-1994

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Erik Erikson (1902-1994) was an American psychoanalyst, educator, and author. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany to Danish parents who separated before his birth, but he grew up in Karlsruhe, Germany. He used his stepfather’s last name, Homburger, until the late 1930s. In 1930 he married Joan Mowat Serson, a Canadian dancer and artist. In 1933 they immigrated from Vienna to the United States. He was best known for his work in child development and life-span studies, coining the phrase "identity c...

Sakharov, Alexander, 1948-

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Gaylor, Noel A. M.

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Caldicott, Helen.

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Helen Caldicott is a pediatrician and environmental activist. In her native Australia, she led successful campaigns to ban French atmospheric nuclear testing and uranium mining. In the U.S., she revived Physicians for Social Responsibility while an instructor at Harvard Medical School and a fellow at Children's Hospital Medical Center. In 1980, she resigned to become a full-time anti-nuclear activist. She helped found the Medical Campaign Against Nuclear War, and the Women's Party for Survival, ...

Craig, Gordon Alexander, 1913-

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Historian of European diplomacy and expert on modern Germany. Craig was educated at Princeton University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1941. He was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford in 1938. During World War II he worked in Washington for the Office of Strategic Services and the Dept. of State before joining the U.S. Marine Corps. After the war he taught at Princeton; in 1961 he joined the faculty at Stanford University. He was the first recipient of the J.E. Wallace Sterling Professorship in the Humanities,...

Physicians for Social Responsibility (U.S.). Mid-Peninsula & Stanford Chapter.

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