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The Truth About the Serbo-Croatian Conflict
Yugoslavia is on fire. Since early summer a vicious war has been fought between the forces of the break-away Croatian republic and...
Science for Peace
Nov 1, 19916 min read
The Role of NATURE
The weekly science journal NATURE is one of the world’s most authoritative and certainly the most widely read of all general scientific...
Science for Peace
Nov 1, 199120 min read
Radiation — 'The Most Important Subject in the World'
How radiation is definedRadiation comes in many different forms. Some, like heat and light from the sun, are natural and can be seen or...
Science for Peace
Nov 1, 19918 min read
Democratizing the United Nations
The theme of making the world more democratic through a reformed United Nations system prevailed at the Second Conference on a More...
Science for Peace
Nov 1, 19914 min read
E-Mail and the Gulf War
I have been very disillusioned with the Science for Peace group because there has been a plethora of talk and no action. I hope you can...
Science for Peace
Mar 1, 199125 min read
'Teach-in' at U of T
On Wednesday, February 13 a non-partisan teach-in was held at University of Toronto entitled ‘War in the Gulf: The University Reflects.’...
Science for Peace
Mar 1, 19913 min read
Editorial Matters
The War, The War … … Inside my brain a dull tom-tom begins. Absurdly hammering a prelude of its own, Capricious monotone That is at...
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Mar 1, 19915 min read
Letters on the Gulf War
Various letters and telegrams were sent by Science for Peace members to the Prime Minister, the Minister of External Affairs and other...
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Mar 1, 19919 min read
How to Free Kuwait
Almost everyone agrees that the use of military force to gain territory or other benefit is illegitimate and should be discouraged. Most...
Science for Peace
Mar 1, 19912 min read
Realpolitik as a Form of Madness
In a serious discussion of a controversial subject it is often advisable to begin with definitions of terms in order to avoid...
Science for Peace
Mar 1, 199122 min read
Book Review: The Art of War
This handsomely produced little book (paintings, text and publishing by Geoff Butler) bears on its cover a colour reproduction of a...
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Mar 1, 19912 min read
Letter
The following letter was sent to Science for Peace, dated December 18, 1990: I’m glad that you are infinitely forgiving when it comes to...
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Mar 1, 19914 min read
Ethics and Computer Ethics
And another question: is it beyond the wit of computer experts and military strategists to build into the weapons they sell what I’ll...
Science for Peace
Mar 1, 19911 min read
Notices
The Elmwood Institute The Elmwood Institute is a membership-based ecological think-tank founded by Fritjof Capra , with Ernest Callerbach...
Science for Peace
Mar 1, 19914 min read
Towards a Comprehensive Test Ban
Review of a special number of Arms Control Today (November 1990). Until the Gulf War began to dominate the headlines, the progress of the...
Science for Peace
Mar 1, 19917 min read
Metaphor and War
Extracts from Metaphor And War: The Metaphor System Used To Justify War In The Gulf George Lakoff, Linguistics Department, University of...
Science for Peace
Mar 1, 199110 min read
Quotes and Notes
From Time, February 18, 1991: ‘Sorting Out the Mixed Signals’August 31, 1990‘In a day he would be decimated. It would be over in a day’ —...
Science for Peace
Mar 1, 19914 min read
From the Media: Notes and Matters Arising
The Winners and the Losers The Editorial of The Globe and Mail, February 28 (‘Tallying up the war’s winners and losers’) lists those...
Science for Peace
Mar 1, 19913 min read
False Dichotomies: How the War is Sold
Those who would wage war know how to incite support in the populace. The trick is to pose false alternatives, to argue as if the only...
Science for Peace
Mar 1, 19915 min read
NORAD
THE NORAD AGREEMENT A submission by Science for Peace to the Standing Committee on External Affairs and International Trade The NORAD...
Science for Peace
Mar 1, 199117 min read
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