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Thanks to the Retiring Editor
This is an opportunity to thank Alan Weatherley, the past editor of the Bulletin. Alan, of the Life Sciences Dept. (Biology) shouldered...
Science for Peace
Dec 1, 19921 min read
Update on the International Peace Bureau
Science for Peace became a member of the International Peace Bureau in 1991 when IPB’s annual conference was held in Toronto. At its 1992...
Science for Peace
Dec 1, 19924 min read
Report on UNCED
In June of this year I attended the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio. As the SfP representative to UNCED I...
Science for Peace
Dec 1, 19922 min read
Canada and Biological and Chemical Weapons Research
On 1 June 1992 members of SfP met with the Biological and Chemical Defence Review Committee of the Department of National Defence to...
Science for Peace
Dec 1, 19922 min read
New Concerns Over Biological Weaponry
This is the title of an article by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg in the September 1992 issue of The Ploughshares Monitor. She points out that a...
Science for Peace
Dec 1, 19922 min read
International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility
Rapid changes in the environment and our society have forced us to become more conscious of our role in the world. Science and technology...
Science for Peace
Dec 1, 19922 min read
In Memoriam: Petra K. Kelly (1948-92)
When we attempt to get rld of such things as racism or sexism or poverty, we must also look at their structural underpinning — a system...
Science for Peace
Dec 1, 19921 min read
Local Action for Global Change in the 90s
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War North (IPPNW) American Regional Student Conference, February 10 -14, 1993, 519...
Science for Peace
Dec 1, 19921 min read
Welcome Bob Baxter as the new editor of the _Bulletin_
From the New Editor Robert M. Baxter My professional background can be summarized as follows: B.Sc. (Chemistry), Mount Allison, 1947;...
Science for Peace
Dec 1, 19922 min read
New Books from Science for Peace/Samuel Stevens
September 1992 Unarmed Forces: Nonviolent Action in Central America and the Middle East, edited by Graeme MacQueen, 129pp. “ .. the theme...
Science for Peace
Dec 1, 19922 min read
Psychologists' Petition Against Preparation tor War
This petition has been endorsed by Albert Ellis, Naom Chomsky, and Anatol Rapaport and is sponsored by Science for Peace. It concludes as...
Science for Peace
Dec 1, 19921 min read
CWC Nears Ratification
The nations of the world are on the verge of ratifying the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which provides for the most comprehensive...
Science for Peace
Dec 1, 19921 min read
Ethical Considerations in Scholarship and Science
The Toronto Resolution was formulated at this Workshop, held in Toronto, November 8 and 9, 1991 immediately following the Royal Society...
Science for Peace
Nov 9, 19911 min read
The Toronto Resolution
All codes of ethics in science and scholarship should include certain key elements. We suggest that codes adopt a common preamble. We...
Science for Peace
Nov 9, 19915 min read
Preparing for a Substainable Society
Call for Action We, the undersigned, having considered a number of important issues related to the theme of preparing for a sustainable...
Science for Peace
Nov 1, 19912 min read
Underground Nuclear Testing: The Old Arrogance Remains
August 14, 1991 Way back in 1941, when nuclear weapons and nuclear power were first seriously proposed to the British and American...
Science for Peace
Nov 1, 19917 min read
National Economic Conversion Network Formed
On Saturday, September 21, about one hundred people assembled in Ottawa at a conference organized by the Coalition to Oppose the Arms...
Science for Peace
Nov 1, 19911 min read
Defence Conversion for the 90's: A New Security Policy for Canada
Science is not a value-free enterprise. Its success depends on a respect for openness and freedom of enquiry, on an enthusiasm for...
Science for Peace
Nov 1, 199118 min read
Remarks at a Citizens' Inquiry into Peace and Security
The ever-tightening interdependence of all local economies, demographies, and security concerns has made all major human problems global...
Science for Peace
Nov 1, 19914 min read
From the Media: Notes and Matters Arising
In an article entitled ‘Canada’s high-tech defence disaster’ (Globe and Mail, September 24, 1991), Marcus Davies heavily criticises the...
Science for Peace
Nov 1, 19912 min read
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