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Editorial Matters
George Ignatieff Dr. George Ignatieff, immediate past-President of Science for Peace and our first Honorary President, wrote one of the...
Science for Peace
Nov 1, 19891 min read
In Memoriam: George Ignatieff
Throughout my life I have had discomfort in getting to first-name terms with people considerably older than myself. It is a cultural,...
Science for Peace
Nov 1, 19893 min read
Quotes and Notes
Jonathan Schell (“Speak Loudly, Carry a Small Stick”, Harper’s, March, 1989): History rarely provides direct, unequivocal answers to our...
Science for Peace
Nov 1, 198912 min read
Chemical and Biological Weapons Workshop
An Experts’ Workshop on “The control of chemical and biological weapons” was held at the University of Toronto on April 15,1989, as an...
Science for Peace
Jun 1, 19893 min read
News for Science for Peace members
Armenian Earthquake Fund Following an appeal to the Royal Society of Canada by a group of Fellows, the Society conveyed its condolences...
Science for Peace
Jun 1, 19895 min read
Editorial Matters
The Bulletin … and Tributes The Bulletin has been an extremely useful organ of Science for Peace and with our growing membership its...
Science for Peace
Jun 1, 19894 min read
Science and Peace: United Nations Resolution
At the 71st plenary meeting, December 6, 1988, the following resolution was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. The General...
Science for Peace
Jun 1, 19891 min read
An Oath for Scientists?
Aware that, in the absence of ethical control, science and its products can damage society and its future, I pledge that my own...
Science for Peace
Jun 1, 19893 min read
Words from the President
Science for Peace as a Reality Science for Peace is a concept. What is its reality? It is what it does. Science for Peace produces a...
Science for Peace
Jun 1, 19894 min read
From the Media: notes and matters arising
NATO — Problems … Progress? “NATO at 40” has 900,000 troops in West Germany “to repulse an attack no one any longer believes is coming.”...
Science for Peace
Jun 1, 198913 min read
Quotes and Notes
Nobody in Science for Peace cuts deeper than Anatol Rapoport — as we all know! The following extract from Rapoport (1968) “The Study of...
Science for Peace
Jun 1, 19894 min read
In Memoriam: John and Lois Dove
As former President of Science for Peace, I came to know John and Lois Dove as among the most devoted supporters of the cause of peace....
Science for Peace
Jun 1, 19891 min read
In Memoriam: John and Lois Dove
Professor John Dove and his wife Lois Hersum Dove have both been killed in a motor accident in Botswana. They were there partly on...
Science for Peace
Jun 1, 19894 min read
Publications
Book Reviews “The Demilitarized Society: Disarmament and Conversion”, by Seymour Melman. Harvest House, Montréal, 1988, 132 pp. In...
Science for Peace
Jun 1, 19899 min read
Business Matters
Report of National Executive (summary) (The following will be a regular feature of the Bulletin in which highlights of the activities of...
Science for Peace
Jun 1, 19897 min read
Nuclear Attack Submarines For Canada?
Recent public debate in Canada has focussed almost exclusively on the Meech Lake accord and the Mulroney trade deal. Yet the proposed...
Science for Peace
Feb 1, 19894 min read
Publications available
The following papers are available from Derek Paul, Director of Publications, Physics Dept., University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 1A7W....
Science for Peace
Feb 1, 19892 min read
The Non-Offensive Defense of Europe
The INF Treaty of 1987 has been widely acclaimed, not only for its intrinsic merit of banning a whole class of nuclear weapons, but also...
Science for Peace
Feb 1, 19895 min read
SfP looks to the future
George Spiegelman Here are several of the thoughts I have on entering the new year. First, we are faced with having many people believe...
Science for Peace
Feb 1, 198910 min read
Workshop on the Control of Chemical and Biological Weapons
Experts from Canada and other nations will be invited to a one-day workshop on the control of chemical and biological weapons (CBW) April...
Science for Peace
Feb 1, 19892 min read
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