Records, 1973-1986.

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Records, 1973-1986.

Includes correspondence, minutes, administrative files and reference files, especially concerning the United Nations Special Session on Disarmament, 1978 and Special Session on Disarmament, 1982.

10.4 linear ft.

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Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993

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Homer A. Jack (May 19, 1916 – August 5, 1993) was an American Unitarian Universalist clergyman pacifist and social activist who helped found the Congress of Racial Equality and National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE). Jack was an only child to active socialist and freethinker parents. His grandparents had immigrated from central and eastern Europe to escape oppression and poverty. Like his parents, the child Jack was a radical nature-worshiper who distrusted organized religion. He...

United Nations

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In 1945, four individuals who had worked on the Manhattan project-John L. Balderston, Jr., Dieter M. Gruen, W.J. McLean, and David B. Wehmeyer-formed a committee and wrote a letter to 154 public figures asking for their opinions about the possibility of the creation of a world government. Over the next year, as the various public figures responded to the letter, the responses were correlated into a report that was released in 1947. From the guide to the Balderston, John L., Jr. Colle...

United Nations. General Assembly. Special Session. 10th 1978

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United Nations. General Assembly. Special Session. 10th 1978

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NGO Committee on Disarmament.

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Established in June 1973 by a group of international NGOs (non-governmental organizations) which had petitioned the New York Bureau of the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Status with the U.N. Economic and Social Council to form a NGO Committee on Disarmament at U.N. headquarters which would be parallel to the Special NGO Committee on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland; purposes of the organization were: 1. to bring interested NGOs together to discuss current disarmament negotiati...

Swarthmore College. Peace Collection.

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