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| Title: | Atomic Scientists of Chicago. Records |
|---|---|
| Dates: | 1943-1955 |
| Size: | 17 linear ft. (24 boxes) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | The Atomic Scientists of Chicago (ASC) was founded in September 1945 at the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago to address the moral and social responsibilities of scientists regarding the use of nuclear energy and to promote public awareness of its possible consequences. Members included J. A. Simpson, Jr., Kenneth Cole, Farrington Daniels, James Franck, Lester Guttman, Thorfin Hogness, Robert Mulliken, Glenn Seaborg, Leo Szilard, Harold Urey, and Walter Zinn. ASC sponsored conferences, lobbied for policies and in December 1945 began publishing the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The collection contains correspondence, subject files, financial records, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, conference material, membership records, and reports. It also includes material relating to the Chicago Committee for Civilian Control of Atomic Energy, the Association of Scientists for Atomic Education, the Federation of American Scientists, the University Office of Inquiry into the Social Aspects of Atomic Energy, and the papers of Lester Guttman. |
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The Atomic Scientists of Chicago was founded on September 26, 1945, by the scientific employees of the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago, and was made open to any past or present scientific employee of the Manhattan Project. Work on some aspect of the bomb was a requisite for membership. The ASC was established to educate the public and the government in the political, social, and international implications attending the national and international development and exploitation of atomic energy. The constitution, adopted on October 30, 1945, defined the aims of the organization as, “to explore, clarify and formulate the opinion and responsibilities of scientists in regard to the problems brought about by the release of nuclear energy,…and to educate the public to a full understanding of the scientific, technological and social problems arising from the release of nuclear energy.”
ASC’s membership consisted of approximately two hundred, or almost ninety percent, of the University of Chicago’s scientists who had participated in the development of the bomb during the war years--coinciding with the Manhattan Project. Including such noted scientists as Harold Urey, Leo Szilard, Harrison Brown, Thorfin Hogness, and John Simpson. By December 1945 the body had been incorporated in Illinois as a non-profit organization, and had affiliated with the Federation of American Scientists.
On December 10, 1945, the first issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a six-page periodical that was to grow into one of about fifty pages, appeared. The original executive committee was headed by J.A. Simpson, Jr., and the advisory committee was composed of Thorfin Hogness, chairman, Kenneth C. Cole, Farrington Daniels, James Franck, Robert S. Mulliken, Glenn T. Seaborg, Harold C. Urey and Walter H. Zinn. The staff was comprised of H.H. Goldsmith, secretary to the Executive Committee; L.C. Furney, treasurer; and Mrs. R. Adams, secretary.
In November 1945, a University Office of Inquiry into the Social Aspects of Atomic Energy was formed under University auspices as a companion organization to the Atomic Scientists of Chicago. This latter organization embraced the entire University, and its program and methods closely paralleled that of ASC.
The leading members of the Office of Inquiry were Professors E.A. Shils, Robert Redfield, Leo Szilard, T.W. Schultz, Jacob Marschak, Fred Eggan and Jacob Viner. The Office of Inquiry, though technically a separate organization, and open to those not qualified for membership in ASC, co-operated closely with ASC, especially on Bulletin articles and editorials, and on contacts and legislative agitation. As a result, some of its papers and correspondence, especially that of Robert Redfield, are incorporated in this collection.
In April 1949, a reorganization of ASC occurred. The Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science was incorporated under an Illinois charter as a non-profit educational organization with the sole function of publishing the Bulletin, hitherto published by ASC. The ASC continued as a separate organization, engaging in education and propaganda activities, as before, but with increased attention to political action. Its membership, resources and activities achieved a peak in the period of 1946 to 1947, subsequently undergoing a sharp decline, coincident with the decline in public interest over atomic energy problems. Again, in 1954, there was renewed interest in the organization, due to the threat scientist’s saw in “McCarthism” and the Oppenheimer Case. A further decline of ASC membership and activities led the organization, in February 1959, to propose that the Atomic Scientists of Chicago be disbanded. The proposal also suggested that their remaining funds be turned over to a new organization, the Atomic Science Fund, which was to be incorporated as a non-profit, educational body, devoted exclusively to organizing and conducting scientific conferences on atomic energy.
The ASC had conducted three conferences in Chicago (September and December 1945, and February 1946), and three abroad (Pugwash, N.S., 1957; La Beauport, Canada, 1958; and Vienna and Kitzbuhel, Austria, 1958). By re-incorporation, it was hoped that the group might obtain the tax exemption which it was not allowed under its original charter, inasmuch as it was then a political action group. The proposal from February 1959 was abandoned and a meeting was called in June 1959 to decide the future of the ASC.
The records of the ASC have been arranged into four series: I. Subject Files, II. Correspondence, III. Library of the ASC, and IV. Addenda. The collection covers the period 1943-1955 and includes correspondence; financial records, miscellaneous manuscripts; and records of the Chicago Committee for Civilian Control of Atomic Energy, a group of non-scientist Chicagoans affiliated to the National Committee for Civilian Control, supporting the atomic scientists’ fight for civilian control of atomic energy.
In arranging the papers of the ASC the original order has been maintained. In some cases apparent inconsistencies will arise in arrangement, but because of the extent of the collection no major attempt has been made at this time to correct these discrepancies. Researchers are therefore strongly urged to search all possible places where material might be filed when seeking a particular item, e.g., when seeking a specific letter of Harold Urey, his file in Correspondence Files, the Executive Committee’s Files, the subject files, etc., should be searched.
The Subject Files have been arranged by subject matter, alphabetically; each subject group is further sub-divided alphabetically; material in each folder is arranged by date. The Correspondence Files are arranged alphabetically as follows: first, under each letter of the alphabet there is a General Correspondence File, containing material and correspondence arranged alphabetically; second, following each General Correspondence File there are Subject Files, arranged alphabetically, each folder arranged by date. In both the Subject Files and the Correspondence Files near-print material and newspaper clippings, and other miscellaneous material will often be found. Generally, the Subject Files contain correspondence, near-print material, and miscellaneous matter relative to a specific subject. However, if the subject did not seem to warrant a separate grouping, the material was often filed in the Correspondence Files.
The third series, Library of the ASC, consists of miscellaneous correspondence and printed material. Series IV, Addenda, has been arranged into four subseries that include Atomic Scientists of Chicago, University Office of Inquiry, Associated Scientific Groups, and Conferences. The addenda comprise the years 1945 to 1954, mostly of the periods 1945 to 1947, and with a scattering of 1954 papers, the bulk of which concern the Oppenheimer Case. Except for amplifying the atomic energy conferences, and the material on the Oppenheimer Case, the addenda appear to add little informational value to that contained in the other three series. A similarity of folder headings should enable the user to correlate Series IV with Series’ I through III.
The addenda series also includes the papers of Lester Guttman, one time chairman of the Atomic Scientists of Chicago and longtime member of its executive committee. Guttman, a physical chemist, was with the Manhattan Project in New Mexico from 1943 to 1946. He was a member of the faculty of the Institute for Metals at the University of Chicago from 1946 to 1955. In 1956, he became a senior chemist at Argonne National Laboratories, administered by the University of Chicago for the U.S. Government. The papers include files from his membership in both the ASC and the Federation of American Scientists.
Series I: Subject Matter Files |
| Box 1 Folder 1 | Attacks on the Atomic Energy Committee, Joint Committee Hearings (based on Senator Hickenlooper's charges of mal-administration in 1949) |
| Box 1 Folder 2 | Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (miscellaneous papers) |
| Box 1 Folder 3 | Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists (financial and business correspondence) |
| Box 1 Folder 4 | Chicago Committee for Civilian Control (CCCC) (Affiliated with the National Committee to support atomic scientists in their fight for civilian control of Atomic Energy, 1946); Acceptance, letters of, to Join Committee |
| Box 1 Folder 5 | CCCC, Chicago Committee Actions |
| Box 1 Folder 6 | CCCC, Actions by Groups |
| Box 1 Folder 7 | CCCC, American Veteran's Committee |
| Box 1 Folder 8 | CCCC, Budget |
| Box 1 Folder 9 | CCCC, Clippings, Publicity, etc. |
| Box 1 Folder 10 | CCCC, Cooperation |
| Box 1 Folder 11 | CCCC, Chicago Committee for Civilian Control of Atomic Energy (correspondence and near-print material) |
| Box 1 Folder 12 | CCCC, Correspondence |
| Box 1 Folder 13 | CCCC, Horwich, Letters to scientists who speak, Katzin's talks, cooperating organizations |
| Box 1 Folder 14 | CCCC, House, in re McMahon Bill |
| Box 1 Folder 15 | CCCC, Ibser File, duplication of |
| Box 1 Folder 16 | CCCC, Literature, sample and form letters |
| Box 1 Folder 17 | CCCC, Membership lists and early press releases |
| Box 1 Folder 18 | CCCC, Chicago Committee members |
| Box 1 Folder 19 | CCCC, Meeting, May 1946 |
| Box 1 Folder 20 | CCCC, National Committee (for Civilian Control of Atomic Energy) |
| Box 1 Folder 21 | CCCC, NCAI form letter no. 2 (National Committee on Atomic Information) |
| Box 1 Folder 22 | CCCC, Senate, form letters to |
| Box 1 Folder 23 | CCCC, Senators, form letters from and to |
| Box 1 Folder 24 | CCCC, Reports |
| Box 1 Folder 25 | CCCC, Resolutions |
| Box 1 Folder 26 | CCCC, Steering Committee |
| Box 1 Folder 27 | CCCC, Quiz |
| Box 1 Folder 28 | CCCC, Mrs. Welling's correspondence |
| Box 1 Folder 29 | CCCC, Mrs. Welling |
| Box 1 Folder 30 | CCCC, YMCA and YWCA |
| Box 2 Folder 1 | Conferences (held by the ACS, occasionally in cooperation with other groups, to examine with non-scientific public leaders the problems raised by atomic energy) |
| Box 2 Folder 2 | Conferences, requests for |
| Box 2 Folder 3 | Conferences, materials sent to out of town conferences |
| Box 2 Folder 4 | Conferences, Atomic Energy Conference |
| Box 2 Folder 5 | Conferences, April 26, 1947 |
| Box 2 Folder 6 | Conferences, Business conferences |
| Box 2 Folder 7 | Conferences, Chicago conference, acceptances |
| Box 2 Folder 8 | Conferences, Chicago conference, answers pending |
| Box 2 Folder 9 | Conferences, Chicago conference, background data |
| Box 2 Folder 10 | Conferences, Chicago conference, previous correspondence |
| Box 2 Folder 11 | Conferences, Chicago conference, lists |
| Box 2 Folder 12 | Conferences, Chicago conference, rejections, international control conference, December 1946 |
| Box 2 Folder 13 | Conferences, Chicago conference, rejections |
| Box 2 Folder 14 | Conferences, Flint conference |
| Box 2 Folder 15 | Conferences, Grand Rapids conference |
| Box 2 Folder 16 | Conferences, Illinois conference |
| Box 2 Folder 17 | Conferences, International conference |
| Box 3 Folder 1 | Conferences, Kansas conference |
| Box 3 Folder 2 | Conferences, Labor conference, invitations |
| Box 3 Folder 3 | Conferences, Labor conference, miscellaneous |
| Box 3 Folder 4 | Conferences, Lake Geneva conference |
| Box 3 Folder 5 | Conferences, Lake Geneva conference, acceptances |
| Box 3 Folder 6 | Conferences, Lake Geneva conference, expenses |
| Box 3 Folder 7 | Conferences, Lake Geneva conference, invitations |
| Box 3 Folder 8 | Conferences, Lake Geneva conference, other |
| Box 3 Folder 9 | Conferences, Lake Geneva conference, ASC questionnaire |
| Box 3 Folder 10 | Conferences, Legislative conference, December 27-28, 1945 |
| Box 3 Folder 11 | Conferences, Movie industry |
| Box 3 Folder 12 | Conferences, New York Radio conference |
| Box 3 Folder 13 | Conferences, Princeton conference |
| Box 3 Folder 14 | Conferences, Radioactivity meeting, October 1946 |
| Box 3 Folder 15 | Conferences, Religious conference |
| Box 3 Folder 16 | Conferences, Religious conference, history of |
| Box 4 Folder 1 | Conferences, Religious leaders, conference of |
| Box 4 Folder 2 | Conferences, Religious leaders' and scientists' meeting, proceedings of |
| Box 4 Folder 3 | Conferences, Joint committee |
| Box 4 Folder 4 | Conferences, Science and the Welfare of Mankind, conference on (MISSING) |
| Box 4 Folder 5 | Conferences, State-wide conferences |
| Box 4 Folder 6 | Conferences, Toledo conference |
| Box 4 Folder 7 | Conferences, Dinners |
| Box 4 Folder 8 | Contacts (lists of people of note to contact for propaganda purposes), individual contacts |
| Box 4 Folder 9 | Contacts, Press-radio contacts |
| Box 4 Folder 10 | Contacts, State Department contacts |
| Box 4 Folder 11 | Corporation details (material relating to the organization, incorporation, and constitutional management of the ASC, Inc.), Atomic Scientists of Chicago business |
| Box 4 Folder 12 | Corporation details, constitution and by-laws of ASC up to date, November 1, 1950, ASC 1948 |
| Box 4 Folder 13 | Corporation details, constitution, original and history of changes of |
| Box 4 Folder 14 | Corporation details, organizational records |
| Box 4 Folder 15 | Descriptive materials of ASC (material pertaining to the internal administration and organization of the ASC), Advisory Committee |
| Box 4 Folder 16 | Descriptive materials of ASC, aims of the atomic scientists |
| Box 4 Folder 17 | Descriptive materials of ASC, biographies of atomic scientists, ASC-1948 |
| Box 4 Folder 18 | Descriptive materials of ASC, Committee set-up |
| Box 4 Folder 19 | Descriptive materials of ASC, office information |
| Box 4 Folder 20 | Descriptive materials of ASC, outstanding ditto-masters, ASC-1948 |
| Box 4 Folder 21 | Descriptive materials of ASC, personnel, ASC-1948 |
| Box 5 Folder 1 | Dues and membership (material relating to membership dues and membership drives, FAS dues |
| Box 5 Folder 2-2A | Dues and membership, 1945-1946 |
| Box 5 Folder 3 | Dues and membership, dues paid, 1946 |
| Box 5 Folder 4 | Dues and membership, membership drive, 1950 |
| Box 5 Folder 5 | Dues and membership, membership, 1949 |
| Box 5 Folder 6 | Dues and membership, membership, 1948 |
| Box 5 Folder 7 | Dues and membership, signed statements of intent, September 26, 1947 (1945-1946) |
| Box 6 Folder 1 | Dues and Membership, membership (misc. correspondence relating thereto), 1946-1947 |
| Box 6 Folder 2 | Dues and Membership, letters of invitation to Argonne technical personnel |
| Box 6 Folder 3 | Dues and membership, membership applications |
| Box 6 Folder 4 | Dues and membership, membership invitiations, particularly Fellows-AEC |
| Box 6 Folder 5 | Executive Committee Elections (misc. returns tabulated, ballot forms, correspondence, etc.) |
| Box 6 Folder 6 | Executive Committee Elections, ASC, 1948 |
| Box 6 Folder 7 | Executive Committee correspondence, general 1950 |
| Box 6 Folder 8 | Executive Committee correspondence, 1949 |
| Box 6 Folder 9 | Executive Committee correspondence, ASC, 1948 |
| Box 6 Folder 10 | Executive Committee correspondence, 1946-1947 |
| Box 6 Folder 11 | Executive Committee meetings, minutes, June 15, 1949 |
| Box 6 Folder 12 | Executive Committee meetings, minutes, Octobere 1945-May 7, 1946 |
| Box 6 Folder 13 | Executive Committee meetings, minutes, December-January, 1945-1946-May 3, 1951 |
| Box 6 Folder 14 | Film Library, Bikini Project |
| Box 6 Folder 15 | Film Library, correspondence, near-print material |
| Box 6 Folder 16 | Film Library, film for review |
| Box 7 Folder 1 | Film Library, film survey, copies |
| Box 7 Folder 2 | Film Library, MGM films |
| Box 7 Folder 3 | Film Library, Paramount Newsreel number 99, complete file on |
| Box 7 Folder 4 | Film Library, film requests, Paramount Newsreel number 99 |
| Box 7 Folder 5 | Film Library, Slide films |
| Box 7 Folder 6 | Film Library, Film requests, ASC, 1948 |
| Box 7 Folder 7 | Finances, contributions |
| Box 7 Folder 8 | Finances, finance-Washington |
| Box 7 Folder 9 | Finances, financial matters |
| Box 7 Folder 10 | Finances, financial statements |
| Box 7 Folder 11 | Finances, fund raising |
| Box 7 Folder 12 | Finances, invoices unpaid, ASC, 1948 |
| Box 7 Folder 13 | Finances, bills unpaid, requests filled |
| Box 8 Folder 1 | Finances, bills paid, requests filled |
| Box 8 Folder 2 | Finances, delivery slips |
| Box 8 Folder 3-4 | General meetings, meeting notices |
| Box 8 Folder 5 | General meetings, minutes, ASC, 1945-1946 |
| Box 8 Folder 6 | International control, correspondence, near-print material, reports on international control program of ASC, Acheson Report |
| Box 8 Folder 7 | International control, bills before Congress |
| Box 8 Folder 8 | International control, bomb stockpile |
| Box 9 Folder 1 | International control, control and inspection material |
| Box 9 Folder 2 | International control, Crosby Foundation |
| Box 9 Folder 3 | International control, miscellaneous |
| Box 9 Folder 4 | International control, Joint Congressional Committee on International Control of Atomic Energy |
| Box 9 Folder 5 | International control, publicity |
| Box 9 Folder 6 | International control, reading material |
| Box 9 Folder 7 | International control, Sacher Memorandum on International Control |
| Box 9 Folder 8 | Legislation, correspondence, reports, of ASC to influence legislation |
| Box 9 Folder 9 | Legislation, digests, mailing lists |
| Box 9 Folder 10 | Legislation, digest and testimony of P. Morrison |
| Box 9 Folder 11 | Legislation, digests and testimonies |
| Box 10 Folder 1 | Legislation, House Resolution # 404, Helen G. Douglas (speech "We Can Afford to Split the Atom But We Cannot Afford to Split the Big Three") |
| Box 10 Folder 2 | Legislation, miscellaneous |
| Box 10 Folder 3 | Legislation, mobilization of scientific manpower |
| Box 10 Folder 4 | Legislation, National Science Foundation legislation |
| Box 10 Folder 5 | Legislation, National Science Foundation bill |
| Box 10 Folder 6 | Legislation, National Science Foundation, correspondence, near-print material |
| Box 10 Folder 7 | Legislation, Special Senate Committee on Atomic Energy, correspondence, near-print material |
| Box 10 Folder 8 | Legislation, Vandenberg Amendment |
| Box 10 Folder 9 | Lists, literature |
| Box 10 Folder 10 | Lists, Chicago Committee prospects |
| Box 10 Folder 11 | Lists, miscellaneous |
| Box 11 Folder 1 | Lists, University of Chicago data |
| Box 11 Folder 2 | Literature requests, bibliographies |
| Box 11 Folder 3 | Literature requests, The Atomic Bomb, requests for |
| Box 11 Folder 4 | Literature requests, educational literature requests |
| Box 11 Folder 5 | Literature requests, 1945-1951 |
| Box 11 Folder 6 | Literature requests, 1949 |
| Box 11 Folder 7 | Literature requests, ASC, January-February, 1948 |
| Box 11 Folder 8 | Literature requests, ASC, March-April, 1948 |
| Box 11 Folder 9 | Literature requests, ASC, May-June, 1948 |
| Box 11 Folder 10 | Literature requests, ASC, July-August, 1948 |
| Box 11 Folder 11 | Literature requests, ASC, September-October, 1948 |
| Box 11 Folder 12 | Literature requests, ASC, November-December, 1948 |
| Box 11 Folder 13 | Loyalty and security, correspondence and reports on problems, Condon, Dr. Edward U. |
| Box 11 Folder 14 | Loyalty and security, loyalty investigations and procedures |
| Box 11 Folder 15 | Loyalty and security, loyalty procedures, recommendation to AEC by ASC, (Levi and Miller) |
| Box 12 Folder 1 | Loyalty and security, ASC recommendation to AEC re revision of interim procedures of April 15, 1948 and October 15, 1948 |
| Box 12 Folder 2 | Manuscripts and scripts, articles by individuals |
| Box 12 Folder 3 | Manuscripts and scripts, radio scripts |
| Box 12 Folder 4 | Manuscripts and scripts, Look article |
| Box 12 Folder 5 | Organizations, Association of Scientists for Atomic Education (ASAE), board meetings |
| Box 12 Folder 6 | Organizations, ASAE, Committee Foreign Correspondence |
| Box 12 Folder 7 | Organizations, ASAE, Information center |
| Box 12 Folder 8 | Organizations, ASAE, Joint Committee, ASAE-NCAI (National Committee on Atomic Information) |
| Box 12 Folder 9 | Organizations, ASAE, national office, 1948 |
| Box 12 Folder 10 | Organizations, ASAE, national staff |
| Box 13 Folder 1 | Organizations, ASAE, organizational matters and by-laws |
| Box 13 Folder 2 | Organizations, ASAE, Atlantic Region, 1948 |
| Box 13 Folder 3 | Organizations, ASAE, Atlantic Region |
| Box 13 Folder 4 | Organizations, ASAE, Central Region |
| Box 13 Folder 5 | Organizations, ASAE, Chesapeake Region, 1948 |
| Box 13 Folder 6 | Organizations, ASAE, Pacific Region, 1948 |
| Box 13 Folder 7 | Organizations, ASAE, Pacific Region |
| Box 13 Folder 8 | Organizations, ASAE, Southern Region, 1948 |
| Box 13 Folder 9 | Organizations, ASAE, Southern Region |
| Box 13 Folder 10 | Organizations, ASAE, Rocky Mountain Committee on Nuclear Energy |
| Box 13 Folder 11 | Organizations, Federation of Atomic Scientists, formation of |
| Box 13 Folder 12-13 | Organizations, FATS (Federation of Atomic Scientists correspondence) |
| Box 13 Folder 14 | Organizations, Federation of Atomic Scientists newsletter |
| Box 13 Folder 15 | Organizations, FATS-FAMS, material pertaining to relations of two groups |
| Box 13 Folder 16 | Organizations, Federation of American Scientists (FAS), administrative committee |
| Box 13 Folder 17 | Organizations, FAS, administrative committee, elections |
| Box 13 Folder 18 | Organizations, FAS, Committee for Foreign Correspondence |
| Box 13 Folder 19 | Organizations, FAS, Committee on Secrecy and Clearance |
| Box 13 Folder 20 | Organizations, FAS. Constitution, amendments |
| Box 13 Folder 21 | Organizations, FAS, constitution (new) and by-laws, 1949 |
| Box 13 Folder 22 | Organizations, FAS, misc. correspondence, 1948 |
| Box 14 Folder 1 | Organizations, FAS, council delegates |
| Box 14 Folder 2 | Organizations, FAS, council meetings |
| Box 14 Folder 3 | Organizations, FAS, dues, 1948 |
| Box 14 Folder 4 | Organizations, FAS, finances |
| Box 14 Folder 5 | Organizations, FAS, membership and organizations |
| Box 14 Folder 6 | Organizations, FAS, memos from R.L. Meier, 1948 |
| Box 14 Folder 7 | Organizations, FAS, memoranda, 1946 |
| Box 15 Folder 1 | Organizations, FAS, memoranda, 1947 |
| Box 15 Folder 2 | Organizations, FAS, memoranda, 1948-1950 |
| Box 15 Folder 3 | Organizations, FAS, miscellaneous |
| Box 15 Folder 4 | Organizations, FAS, newsletters |
| Box 15 Folder 5 | Organizations, FAS, news releases |
| Box 15 Folder 6 | Organizations, FAS, publications editor |
| Box 15 Folder 7 | Organizations, FAS, Scientists' Committee |
| Box 16 Folder 1 | Organizations, FAS, Brookhaven Association of Scientists, 1948 |
| Box 16 Folder 2 | Organizations, FAS, Association of Cambridge Scientists |
| Box 16 Folder 3-4 | Organizations, FAS, Chicago Association of Scientists and Engineers, 1948 |
| Box 16 Folder 5 | Organizations, FAS, Association of Scientists of Cornell University |
| Box 16 Folder 6 | Organizations, FAS, Dayton Association of Atomic Scientists |
| Box 16 Folder 7 | Organizations, FAS, Association of Eastern Iowa Scientists |
| Box 16 Folder 8 | Organizations, FAS, Association of Los Alamos Scientists |
| Box 16 Folder 9 | Organizations, FAS, Association of Manhattan Project Scientists |
| Box 16 Folder 10-11 | Organizations, FAS, Mohawk Association of Scientists and Engineers, 1948 |
| Box 16 Folder 12-13 | Organizations, FAS, Association of New York Scientists, 1948 |
| Box 16 Folder 14-15 | Organizations, FAS, Northern California Association of Scientists |
| Box 17 Folder 1-3 | Organizations, FAS, Association of Oak Ridge Engineers and Scientists, 1948 |
| Box 17 Folder 4 | Organizations, FAS, Association of Pasadena Scientists |
| Box 17 Folder 5-6 | Organizations, FAS, Association of Philadelphia Scientists |
| Box 17 Folder 7 | Organizations, FAS, Association of Pittsburgh Scientist |
| Box 17 Folder 8 | Organizations, FAS, Association of Portland Scientists |
| Box 17 Folder 9-10 | Organizations, FAS, Washington Association of Scientists |
| Box 17 Folder 11-12 | Organizations, FAS, Wisconsin Association of Scientists |
| Box 17 Folder 13 | Organizations, National Committee on Atomic Information (NCAI), bulletins |
| Box 17 Folder 14 | Organizations, NCAI, committee meetings and policy |
| Box 18 Folder 1 | Organizations, NCAI, letters, general |
| Box 18 Folder 2 | Organizations, NCAI, newsletters and releases |
| Box 18 Folder 3 | Organizations, NCAI, reports on activities |
| Box 18 Folder 4 | Organizations, Office of Inquiry into the Social Aspects of Atomic Energy, University of Chicago |
| Box 18 Folder 5 | Polls and questionnaires, FAS ballots |
| Box 18 Folder 6 | Polls and questionnaires, by-laws and amendments number 1, votes on |
| Box 18 Folder 7 | Polls and questionnaires, by-laws and amendments number 2, votes on |
| Box 18 Folder 8 | Polls and questionnaires, atomic bomb and world affairs survey, 1946 |
| Box 18 Folder 9 | Polls and questionnaires, membership questionnaires (will speak) |
| Box 18 Folder 10 | Polls and questionnaires, membership questions (won't speak) |
| Box 19 Folder 1 | Polls and questionnaires, military control, poll on |
| Box 19 Folder 2 | Polls and questionnaires, public opinion, polls on |
| Box 19 Folder 3 | Polls and questionnaires, Sacher Poll |
| Box 19 Folder 4-5 | Polls and questionnaires, security clearance correspondence, poll on, 1948 |
| Box 19 Folder 6 | Polls and questionnaires, Wallace letter |
| Box 19 Folder 7 | Polls and questionnaires, World government poll |
| Box 19 Folder 8 | Publicity, newspaper |
| Box 19 Folder 9 | Publicity, public relations |
| Box 19 Folder 10 | Publicity, on Senate hearings |
| Box 19 Folder 11 | Publicity, press conference held June 22, 1949 |
| Box 19 Folder 12 | Publicity, press release (J. Arnold), June 2, 1949 |
| Box 19 Folder 13 | Publicity, press releases, miscellaneous |
| Box 19 Folder 14 | Publicity, radio |
| Box 19 Folder 15 | Publicity, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission press releases |
| Box 19 Folder 16 | Releases to members, Biological Warfare, National Defense Establishment |
| Box 19 Folder 17 | Releases to members, "Come-on" letter (re amendments to AEC procedures) |
| Box 19 Folder 18 | Releases to members, meeting notices, memos, 1948 |
| Box 19 Folder 19 | Releases to members, memo sent to ASC members re National Science Foundation Bill, HR 4846 |
| Box 19 Folder 20 | Speakers' Bureau, Adult Education Council |
| Box 20 Folder 1 | Speakers' Bureau, lectures given |
| Box 20 Folder 2 | Speakers' Bureau, miscellaneous |
| Box 20 Folder 3 | Speakers' Bureau, other sites |
| Box 20 Folder 4 | Speakers' Bureau |
| Box 20 Folder 5 | Speakers' Bureau, speaker requests, 1948 |
| Box 20 Folder 6 | Speakers' Bureau, speeches given |
| Box 20 Folder 7 | Speakers' Bureau, speeches refused |
| Box 20 Folder 8 | Speakers' Bureau, speeches requested |
| Box 20 Folder 9 | Tax Status, incorporation papers |
| Box 20 Folder 10 | Tax Status, income tax returns, 1948 |
Series II: Correspondence |
| Box 20 Folder 11 | Advertising Council |
| Box 20 Folder 12 | Adult Education Council |
| Box 20 Folder 13 | American Association for the United Nations |
| Box 20 Folder 14 | American Association of Scientific Workers |
| Box 20 Folder 15 | Americans United |
| Box 20 Folder 16 | American Veterans' Committee |
| Box 20 Folder 17 | "A" Associations (Associations of scientists, correspondence, near-print material) |
| Box 21 Folder 1 | Association for International Atomic Control |
| Box 21 Folder 2 | Association of Industrial Scientists (California) |
| Box 21 Folder 3 | Associations, British |
| Box 21 Folder 4 | Associations, Canadian Association of Scientific Workers |
| Box 21 Folder 5 | Associations, Holland |
| Box 21 Folder 6 | The Atomic Bomb, general booklet correspondence |
| Box 21 Folder 7 | The Atomic Bomb, booklet sent, no charge |
| Box 21 Folder 8 | The Atomic Bomb, large order correspondence |
| Box 21 Folder 9 | The Atomic Bomb, copy sent for comment |
| Box 21 Folder 10 | Atomic Energy Commission |
| Box 21 Folder 11 | "B" miscellaneous correspondence |
| Box 21 Folder 12 | "C" miscellaneous correspondence |
| Box 22 Folder 1 | Carnegie Foundation |
| Box 22 Folder 2 | Central Press Clipping Bureau |
| Box 22 Folder 3 | Chicago Daily News |
| Box 22 Folder 4 | Chicago Technical Societies Council -SCI-EN-TECH News |
| Box 22 Folder 5 | Colgate University |
| Box 22 Folder 6 | Columbia Radiation Laboratory |
| Box 22 Folder 7 | Committee for Study of the Soviet Union |
| Box 22 Folder 8 | Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. |
| Box 22 Folder 9 | "D" miscellaneous correspondence |
| Box 22 Folder 10 | Dewey, Bradley Report, correspondence with George Biderman |
| Box 22 Folder 11 | "E" miscellaneous correspondence |
| Box 22 Folder 12 | Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists |
| Box 22 Folder 13 | Encyclopedia Yearbook |
| Box 22 Folder 14 | "F" miscellaneous correspondence |
| Box 22 Folder 15 | Foreign correspondence, National Sponsors Committee for |
| Box 22 Folder 16 | "G" miscellaneous correspondence |
| Box 22 Folder 17 | General materials committee correspondence |
| Box 23 Folder 1 | "H" miscellaneous correspondence |
| Box 23 Folder 2 | "I" miscellaneous correspondence |
| Box 23 Folder 3 | Independent Citizen's Committee |
| Box 23 Folder 4 | Independent Voter's League |
| Box 23 Folder 5 | International Council of Scientific Unions |
| Box 23 Folder 6 | International Film Foundation |
| Box 23 Folder 7 | International organizations, organizations to further world government ideas |
| Box 23 Folder 8 | International organizations, Students for World Federal Government |
| Box 23 Folder 9 | International organizations, United World Federalists |
| Box 23 Folder 10 | International organizations, United World Federalists of Chicago |
| Box 23 Folder 11 | International organizations, Usborne Plan |
| Box 23 Folder 12 | International organizations, World Government News |
| Box 23 Folder 13 | "J" miscellaneous correspondence |
| Box 23 Folder 14 | "K" miscellaneous correspondence |
| Box 23 Folder 15 | "L" miscellaneous correspondence |
| Box 23 Folder 16 | Libraries |
| Box 23 Folder 17 | "M" miscellaneous correspondence |
| Box 23 Folder 18 | Magazines |
| Box 23 Folder 19 | Mayer, M.G. |
| Box 23 Folder 20 | Merriam Lectures, Walgreen Foundation |
| Box 24 Folder 1 | Miscellaneous correspondence, A-H, 1948 |
| Box 24 Folder 2 | Miscellaneous correspondence, I-P, 1948 |
| Box 24 Folder 3 | Miscellaneous correspondence, Q-Z, 1948 |
| Box 24 Folder 4 | Miscellaneous correspondence, 1948 |
| Box 24 Folder 5 | Miscellaneous correspondence, Old |
| Box 24 Folder 6 | "Mc" miscellaneous correspondence |
| Box 24 Folder 7 | McGraw-Hill Publishing Company |
| Box 24 Folder 8 | "N" miscellaneous correspondence |
| Box 24 Folder 9 | National Conference |
| Box 24 Folder 10 | National Emergency Committee for Civilian Control of Atomic Energy |
| Box 24 Folder 11 | National League of Women Voters |
| Box 24 Folder 12 | National Liaison Committee on Atomic Energy |
| Box 24 Folder 13 | New York Sun |
| Box 24 Folder 14 | "O" miscellaneous correspondence |
| Box 24 Folder 15 | One World or None |
| Box 24 Folder 16 | Oram, Harold |
| Box 24 Folder 17 | Owens Radio Contact |
| Box 24 Folder 18 | "P" miscellaneous correspondence |
| Box 24 Folder 19 | Personnel |
| Box 24 Folder 20 | Post War Council |
| Box 24 Folder 21 | Printing bids |
| Box 24 Folder 22 | Public Administration Clearing House |
| Box 24 Folder 23 | "Q" miscellaneous correspondence |
| Box 24 Folder 24 | "R" miscellaneous correspondence |
| Box 24 Folder 25 | Readers' Digest |
| Box 24 Folder 26 | Reports--Washington |
| Box 24 Folder 27 | Rich, Joseph E. |
| Box 25 Folder 1 | "S" miscellaneous correspondence |
| Box 25 Folder 2 | Saturday Review of Literature |
| Box 25 Folder 3 | Science Service |
| Box 25 Folder 4 | Simpson correspondence, Washington |
| Box 25 Folder 5 | Simpson's reports |
| Box 25 Folder 6 | Szilard article, "Atomic Bombs and the Post War Position of the United States in the World", and correspondence |
| Box 25 Folder 7 | "T" miscellaneous correspondence |
| Box 25 Folder 8 | Telegrams |
| Box 25 Folder 9 | "U" miscellaneous correspondence |
| Box 25 Folder 10 | United Nations Atomic Energy Commission |
| Box 25 Folder 11 | United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization |
| Box 25 Folder 12 | University of California |
| Box 25 Folder 13 | University of Chicago |
| Box 25 Folder 14 | Urey |
| Box 25 Folder 15 | "V" miscellaneous correspondence |
| Box 25 Folder 16 | "W" miscellaneous correspondence |
| Box 25 Folder 17 | We The People |
| Box 25 Folder 18 | "X-Y-Z" miscellaneous correspondence |
Series III: Library of the ASC |
Series III, Library of the Atomic Scientists of Chicago, includes correspondence, scripts, near-print material, etc. relating to work of the ASC.
| Box 26 Volume 1 | Atomic Scientists of Chicago, August-September, 1945 |
| Box 26 Volume 2 | Atomic Scientists of Chicago, October-November, 1945 |
| Box 26 Volume 3 | Atomic Scientists of Chicago, December, 1945; 1946 |
| Box 26 Volume 4 | Atomic Scientists of Chicago, miscellaneous |
| Box 26 Volume 5 | Federation of Atomic Scientists |
| Box 26 Volume 7 | Miscellaneous Organizations |
| Box 26 Volume 8 | Miscellaneous Organizations, Britain, Clinton, Los Alamos |
| Box 27 Volume 9 | National Committee on Atomic Information |
| Box 27 Volume 10 | Independent Citizen's Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions |
| Box 27 Volume 11 | Miscellaneous Independent Statements on Atomic Energy |
| Box 27 Volume 12 | Lectures |
| Box 27 Volume 13 | Radio broadcasts |
| Box 28 Volume 14 | Letters |
| Box 28 Volume 15 | Atomic Energy Conference at Chicago, September 19-20, 1945 |
| Box 28 Volume 16 | Material from Congress |
| Box 28 Volume 17 | McMahon Committee, hearings, digests, etc. |
| Box 28 Volume 18 | United Nations organization |
| Box 28 Volume 19 | Pictures |
Series IV: Addenda |
The third series, Library of the ASC, consists of miscellaneous correspondence and printed material. Series IV, Addenda, has been arranged into four subseries that include Atomic Scientists of Chicago, University Office of Inquiry, Associated Scientific Groups, and Conferences. The addenda comprise the years 1945 to 1954, mostly of the periods 1945 to 1947, and with a scattering of 1954 papers, the bulk of which concern the Oppenheimer Case. Except for amplifying the atomic energy conferences, and the material on the Oppenheimer Case, the addenda appear to add little informational value to that contained in the other three series. A similarity of folder headings should enable the user to correlate Series IV with Series' I through III.
Subseries 1: Atomic Scientists of Chicago |
| Box 29 Folder 1 | Organization, general |
| Box 29 Folder 2 | Organization, meetings |
| Box 29 Folder 3 | Organization, committees |
| Box 29 Folder 4 | Organization, membership and mailing lists |
| Box 29 Folder 5 | Organization, information files (bibliography) |
| Box 29 Folder 6 | Organization, information files (Kingdom, Frank, broadcasts, 10-16-45 to 4-4-46) |
| Box 29 Folder 7 | Organization, information files (Military, political and social aspects of atomic energy -- I [American Association for the United Nations -- Dunn, Frederick S.]) |
| Box 29 Folder 8 | Organization, information files (Military, political and social aspects of atomic energy -- II [Einstein, Albert -- McCleery, William]) |
| Box 29 Folder 9 | Organization, information files (Military, political and social aspects of atomic energy -- III [Pfanstiehl, Alfred -- Weiss, Paul, and anonymous]) |
| Box 29 Folder 10 | Organization, information files (Polls on atomic energy questions) |
| Box 29 Folder 11 | Organization, information files (Technical aspects of atomic energy, general) |
| Box 29 Folder 12 | Organization, information files (Technical aspects of atomic energy, Smyth report) |
| Box 29 Folder 13 | Organization, information files (United Nations and world government -- I (American Association for the United Nations -- Farmer, Fyke) |
| Box 29 Folder 14 | Organization, information files (United Nations and world government -- II (Primer for Peace, ed. By Norton Gerber for the Association of Oak Ridge Engineers and Scientists, and published by the Association of Scientists for Atomic Education) |
| Box 30 Folder 1 | Organization, information files (U.S. Government, documents I [79th Congress, 1st session, bills and resolutions, S1717 to SR107/146]) |
| Box 30 Folder 2 | Organization, information files (U.S. Government, documents II [79th Congress, 1st session, speeches by U.S. senators, Executive departments, miscellaneous documents] |
| Box 30 Folder 3 | Organization, information files (legislative analyses and proposals) |
| Box 30 Folder 4 | Activities, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists of Chicago (editorial, layout and printing directions, draft articles and editorials, galley proofs and specimen copy) |
| Box 30 Folder 5 | Activities, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists of Chicago (first issue, distribution of first issue, letters accompanying distribution of first issue, abstracts of responses on receipt of first issue) |
| Box 30 Folder 6 | Activities, proposals |
| Box 30 Folder 7 | Activities, Oppenheimer Case campaign |
| Box 30 Folder 8 | Activities, policy statements |
| Box 30 Folder 9 | Activities, press notices, press releases and press conferences |
| Box 30 Folder 10 | Activities, legislative campaigns |
| Box 30 Folder 11 | Activities, membership polls |
| Box 30 Folder 12 | Correspondence, internal (A-Z by author) |
| Box 31 Folder 1 | Correspondence, outgoing (A-Z by recipient) |
| Box 31 Folder 2 | Correspondence, incoming (A-Z by sender) |
Subseries 2: University Office of Inquiry |
| Box 31 Folder 3 | University Office of Inquiry into the Social Aspects of Atomic Energy, organization, activities |
| Box 31 Folder 4 | University Office of Inquiry into the Social Aspects of Atomic Energy, internal correspondence (A-Z by author) |
| Box 31 Folder 5 | University Office of Inquiry into the Social Aspects of Atomic Energy, outgoing correspondence (A-Z by recipient) |
| Box 31 Folder 6 | University Office of Inquiry into the Social Aspects of Atomic Energy, incoming correspondence (A-Z by sender) |
Subseries 3: Associated Scientific Groups |
| Box 31 Folder 7 | Atomic Science Groups, activities (Assn. Of Los Alamos Scientists, Cambridge Scientists, Manhattan District Scientists, New York Scientists, Oak Ridge Engineers and Scientists, Philadelphia Scientists, Committee for a National Science Foundation, Independent Citizens' Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, Rocket Laboratory Group) |
| Box 31 Folder 8 | Atomic Science Federations, activities (Federation of American Scientists) |
| Box 31 Folder 9 | Atomic Science Federations, activities (Federation of Atomic Scientists) |
| Box 31 Folder 10 | General Science Federations, activities (American Assn. for the Advancement of Science) |
| Box 31 Folder 11 | General Science Federations, activities (National Academy of Sciences, Scientists' Committee on Loyalty Problems) |
| Box 31 Folder 12 | Publications of Scientific Groups, occasional publications (Assn. of Oak Ridge Scientists at Clinton Laboratories, Oak Ridge Scientists, Northern California Assn. of Scientists, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Atomic Energy Committee) |
| Box 32 Folder 1 | Publications of Scientific Groups, periodical publications
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| Box 32 Folder 2 | Publications of Scientific Groups, periodical publications
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| Box 32 Folder 3 | Press releases of Atomic Science Groups (Assn. of Cambridge Scientists, Federation of Atomic Scientists, National Liaison Committee on Atomic Information) |
| Box 32 Folder 4 | Correspondence of associated scientific groups, miscellaneous (A-Z by author) |
Subseries 4: Conferences |
| Box 32 Folder 5 | Conferences on technical and social aspects of atomic energy, Atomic Energy Control Conference, Chicago, September 1945, participants, agenda, daily summaries of meetings |
| Box 32 Folder 6 | Conferences, Atomic Energy Control Conference, Chicago, September 1945, proceedings, book I |
| Box 32 Folder 7 | Conferences, Atomic Energy Control Conference, Chicago, September 1945, proceedings, book II |
| Box 32 Folder 8 | Conferences, Atomic Energy Control Conference, Chicago, September 1945, collateral documents for discussion by the conference, memoranda and technical background papers for the conference |
| Box 32 Folder 9 | Conferences
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| Box 32 Folder 10 | Conferences
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Subseries 5: Lester Guttman Papers |
| Box 33 Folder 1 | ASC, general statement of purpose of scientists |
| Box 33 Folder 2 | ASC, minutes of executive committee, 1948-1951, members of executive committee, 1949-1954 |
| Box 33 Folder 3 | ASC, financial statements, 1947-1952 |
| Box 33 Folder 4 | ASC, memoranda and meeting notices, 1947-1953 |
| Box 33 Folder 5 | ASC, press releases, 1948-1955 |
| Box 33 Folder 6 | ASC, appeal to president on nuclear disarmament, recommendations to AEC on security changes, 1948 |
| Box 33 Folder 7 | ASC, discussion papers, "An appropriate Role for Science in American Policy Making," "National Security in the Hydrogen Age," "Mobilization of Scientific Manpower," "Long Term Prospects for Essential Minerals" |
| Box 33 Folder 8 | ASC, misc. correspondence, 1948-1954 |
| Box 33 Folder 9 | ASC, correspondence, 1946-1949 |
| Box 33 Folder 10 | ASC, L. Guttman notes |
| Box 33 Folder 11 | ASC, material from various atomic scientists groups |
| Box 33 Folder 12 | ASC, material from various sympathetic groups |
| Box 33 Folder 13 | ASC, U.S. government documents |
| Box 33 Folder 14 | ASC, misc. speeches, statements, and articles by government officials, scientists, and others, 1945-1955 |
| Box 34 Folder 1 | FAS, minutes of the council, 1947-1951, 1953-1954 |
| Box 34 Folder 2 | FAS, financial reports, membership lists, 1947-1954 |
| Box 34 Folder 3 | FAS, reorganization plan, constitution and by-laws, 1949 |
| Box 34 Folder 4 | FAS, press releases, 1947-1950, 1953 |
| Box 34 Folder 5 | FAS, memoranda to chapters and members, 1948-1954 |
| Box 34 Folder 6 | FAS, membership drives |
| Box 34 Folder 7 | FAS, scientists committee on loyalty and security, 1953 |
| Box 34 Folder 8 | FAS, misc. members bulletin, 1951-1955 |
| Box 34 Folder 9 | FAS, misc. information bulletins, 1953-1955 |
| Box 34 Folder 10 | FAS, misc. newsletters, 1948-1955 |