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Nuclear disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Charlotte Citizens for Peace Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Charlotte Citizens for Peace
Abstract

Correspondence, administrative files, financial records, flyers, newspaper clippings, reference files. Correspondents include Esther S. Frankel and Abraham Kaufman.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1982-1996

Committee for a Nuclear Overkill Moratorium Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-146
Overview Founded in Chicago in 1976, NOMOR's aim was "to call for a moratorium on the production of nuclear weapons as a unilateral American initiative...for a first step toward stopping and reversing the...international arms race." The founders and activists of NOMOR engaged in media campaigns, sponsored conferences, workshops, and benefits, and was involved with the "Symphony for Survival." News from NOMOR was published between 1978 and 1986. In spite of regional support, especially from the...
Dates: 1976-1986

Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness
Abstract

Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness; organized the November 1960 Washington Pilgrimage and two-day vigil at the Pentagon; chaired by Henry J. Cadbury; also called the Quaker Peace Witness Committee; work was continued by the Friends Witness for World Order

Dates: Majority of material found within 1960-1961

Freeze Campaigns Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Freeze Campaigns
Abstract

Collection includes brochures and flyers, printed correspondence, and pamphlets about the nuclear freeze movement.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1980-1988

Freeze Campaigns (State and Local) Collected Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Freeze Campaigns-state and local
Overview

These are collected records of state and local nuclear freeze campaigns. Freeze was a grassroots movements which called for a bilateral freeze on the nuclear weapons buildup by the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1980s.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1980-1989

Freeze Voter Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-156
Abstract In 1983, supporters of the nuclear freeze founded Freeze Voter, an independent Political Action Committee (PAC). In response to the growing threat of nuclear war and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the PAC's main goal was to "elect a President and Congress who will enact a nuclear weapons Freeze between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. The Committee [will] achieve this goal through the electoral process." The organization worked on the grass-roots level to identify supporters of a nuclear...
Dates: 1983-1988

Friends Witness for World Order Collected Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Friends Witness for World Order
Overview

These records contain meeting minutes, financial records, correspondence, releases/literature, statistics, publicity and press coverage, address by Dorothy Hutchinson, delegation visits to President Kennedy and to ambassadors during Washington, D.C., and photographs.

Dates: 1962

Lee County Coalition for Peace Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Lee County Coalition for Peace
Abstract

Collection includes minutes of meetings, newsletters, flyers, clippings.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1983-1988

Milton Lowenthal Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-191
Overview

Milton Lowenthal was an activist involved in peace and antinuclear movements in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, specifically those related to Three Mile Island and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was a sponsor of Japanese antinuclear artist Kazuaki Kita. This collection includes correspondence, financial records, manuscripts, minutes of meetings, newspaper clippings, reference files, and other memorabilia.

Dates: 1962-1994

Manhattan Project Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Manhattan Project