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Perhaps the greatest demand for scientists to realize the impact of their work comes from the anti-nuclear weapons campaign. For several years peace groups have tried to force Charles Stark Draper Laboratories, which receives $116 million a year in nuclear weapons-related contracts, to cease work on defense systems. With the recent growth of the anti-nuclear movement, Nuclear Free Cambridge has finally received well over the 3800 signatures needed to put a referendum on the November ballot to curtail or eliminate defense work in Cambridge. The signatures have not yet been verified, but they are expected to clear...
...weeks ago, anti-nuclear activist Daniel Ellsberg '62 addressed a forum of about 300 students, and called for non-violent action against the proposal...
Giscard said the anti-nuclear movement has not taken hold in France because nuclear weapons are "only in French hands," as opposed to being deployed by the United States as they are in Germany. "The people know that they will only be used in a case of necessity and only to protest them," he added...
Divestiture, which is a major issue at the College and the Divinity School, has not received as much attention elsewhere, and the anti-nuclear movement is less active in some of the schools than it is in others...
Raskin said he will visit France, Holland, England and West Germany because "these are the four countries where the anti-nuclear movement is strongest...