Letter to the President about nuclear weapons - 1961

In 1961 the Soviet government announced plans to resume testing nuclear weapons, and the U.S. government followed suite.  On September 15 AFSC published an open letter to the President Kennedy, calling the resumption in the arms race: "utterly traggic".

application/pdf icon1961 - Open Letter to POTUS.pdf
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AFSC
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Sep 15, 1961
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