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While Caldicott volunteered no explanation for this discrepancy. Dr.Bernard Lown, a Harvard professor and the president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War said that self interest has traditionally motivated campus activism. Referring to the 1960s peace protests, Lown said. "The moment the draft stopped, the anti-warmovement began to abate...
Harvard doctors have participated prominently in the two-year-old alliance, which claims to represent 30,000 physicians world-wide. The group started with an exchange of letters between Dr. Bernard Lown, professor of Cardiology at the School of Public Health (SPH), and Soviet physician Dr. Eugene Chazov...
LECTURE: "New Discoveries in Egyptian and Philistine Cultures: The Period of the Exodus and the Israelite Settlement"; Trude Dothan; Lown Auditorium; Wednesday...
During the conference, the doctors drafted letters to both President Ronald Reagan and Brezhnev voicing IPPWN's concerns. Chazov, the organization's main Soviet link, co-chaired the conference with Lown, and joined the American doctors in calling "limited" nuclear war an illusion and criticizing those "military, public fuctionaries and even scientists" who perpetuate the illusion...
Boston civil defense plans call for the city's population--in the event of a nuclear attack--to get in their cars and head north. But, Lown asks, "Why not east or south or west? They're all insane. We're resorting now to civil evacuation. But if an attack came in the winter, who'd follow insanity and go to the woods of New Hampshire? If we evacuate our cities, an adversary would think we were planning a pre-emptive strike, so we would have to wait until the last minute. And you can't tell where the radioactive...