From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: PSR: Manhattan Project II
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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 01:42:40 GMT

/** psr.bulletins: 51.0 **/
** Topic: Manhattan Project II December 1 **
** Written 11:50 am  Nov 19, 1992 by psrnatl in cdp:psr.bulletins **
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                   CONTACT:
Emily Green November 13, 1992
202/785-3777

M E D I A  A D V I S O R Y

MANHATTAN PROJECT SCIENTISTS MARK 50TH ANNIVERSARY
WITH CALL FOR NEW POLICIES ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS

WHAT:   Luncheon and policy briefing sponsored by the Manhattan
Project II, a project of Physicians for Social Responsibility
(PSR), on the occasion of the first atomic chain reaction created
by the original Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago.
PSR will release a White Paper on the Manhattan Project II and its
nine major policy prescriptions for reducing the numbers of
nuclear weapons and the threat of nuclear proliferation.  The
policy paper is designed to provide essential information and
policy options for the Clinton Administration and the 103rd
Congress.

WHO:    Dr. Joseph Rotblat, London, England -- the only scientist
to resign from the Manhattan Project when intelligence missions
revealed in 1944 that Hitler was unable to build the bomb.  Dr.
Rotblat will receive the prestigious 1992 Albert Einstein Peace
Prize in Chicago on December 2.  He is also the President of the
Pugwash Conferences for Science and World Affairs.

                Dr. Bernard Feld, Professor of Physics, MIT --
                assistant to Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard in the
                Manhattan Project and former editor of the
                Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

                Dr. Robert Jay Lifton -- President of the Center
                on Violence and Human Survival and Distinguished
                Professor of Psychiatry at CUNY.  He is a winner
                of the National Book Award and author, among other
                works, of Death in Life:  The Survivors of
                Hiroshima; Indefensible Weapons; and The Nazi
                Doctors.

                Dr. Daniel Ellsberg -- former Defense and State
                Department official who drafted the Kennedy
                Administration guidance for the nuclear war plans,
                and released the Pentagon Papers to Congress and
                the New York Times.  He is the founder and
                director of the Manhattan Project II at Physicians
                for Social Responsibility.

WHEN:   Tuesday, December 1, 1992   12:00 - 2:30 PM

WHERE:  Rayburn House Office Building, Room B339

WHY:    In response to ongoing threats of nuclear proliferation
and regional nuclear wars, PSR founded the Manhattan Project II,
an international campaign that brings the same urgency to the
effort to end the threat of nuclear war that marked the original
project.  That historic undertaking researched, built, tested and
delivered the world's first atomic bombs between 1942-1945.

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Physicians for Social Responsibility is a national organization of
over 25,000 health professionals and supporters in more than 120
chapters working to promote arms control, international
cooperation, and environmental protection.  
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