Notes

John Polanyi, “Time for More ‘NO’ in NORAD?”, reprint from the Globe and Mail, 2/12/85. Available from the national office.

Anatol Rapoport, Two articles from the Encyclopedia of Peace Science (Ed. Ervin Laslow), Game Theory and Aggres­sion. Available from the national office.

Between

We are the Maginot Line, The No Man’s Land, The Uncounted Country.

To our south the Land of Opportunity, Suffused in the Glory of Self image, Interpreting innate violence as God’s unfolding purpose.

To our north the Puritans, Clean of motive, Dedicated to wiping slates clean, to scour and flagellate, To redeem makind in spite of itself.

Canada, Inclined to tolerance, Trapped between ideologues, Struggling to continue undestroyed, Hemmed in by despots.

— Murray Wilton March 31, 1986

Nuclear Arms: Threat to our World

…an exhibition first held during the UN Special Session on Disarmament in 1982 opens to the public in Toronto May 9 and continues through May 17.

Presented by the UN Department of Public Information; sponsored by the University of Toronto, the City of Toronto and Soka Gakkai International (Tokyo),

On view at the John P. Robarts Research Library, 130 St. George St.

Exhibit hours:

Monday – Thursday, 10am – 9pm Friday, 10am – 6pm Saturday, 9am – 5pm Sunday, closed.

With the cooperation of the cities of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, York, Etobicoke, Scarborough, North York, the Borough of East York, the UN Association, TDN, Now Rooz Cultural Foundation and Science for Peace.

On Deterrence

Excerpts From The American Methodist Bishops’ Pastoral Letter:

“We have concluded that nuclear de­terrence is a position which cannot receive the church’s blessing.

“Nuclear deterrence has become a dogmatic license for perpetual hosti­lity between the superpowers and for their rigid resistance to significant measures of disarmament.

“Nuclear deterrence has too long been reverenced as the idol of national security. In its most idola­trous forms it has blinded its propon­ents to the many-sided requirements of genuine security.

“Justice is offended by the double standard under which some nations pre­sume nuclear weapons for themselves while denying them to others. Justice is defiled by the superpowers’ impli – cation in conventional arms races and proxy wars in the third world, causing much present suffering and threatening escalation into a nuclear war.”