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More than 750 students, parents, and alumni sat motionless in the silence of Sanders Theater as Helen M. Caldicott, an instructor in pediatrics at Children's Hospital and president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, described the horrors of nuclear war and the "psychic numbing" politicians and military leaders rely on to portray nuclear armament as necessary and moral...
...Caldicott lashed out at "Pentagon jargon" that frames human life in terms of how many times the Soviet Union and the United States could annihilate each other's populations with existing arsenals...
Discussing the almost inconceivable results of a full-scale nuclear attack on Boston to emphasize her warning. Caldicott told her hushed audience that all people within a six-mile radius of the city would be immediately vaporized, as concrete and steel structures burned and a deadly storm of fire and wind raged over as much as a 15,000-square mile region...
...Sanders Theater will be gone. Harvard will be gone....The art, the literature, the poetry--everything will be gone." Caldicott added...
...councilors, who heard testimony from George Kistiakowsky, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, and Helen Caldicott, chairman of Physicians for Social Responsibility, focused most of their attacks on the report prepared by the state civil defense office which labels Cambridge a "risk area" and outlines plans for its evacuation...