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Start Over Genre Petitions

1. Petition to the United State Congress and the President of the United States urging limitation on cloning be limited to the cloning of human beings

Publication:: Produced: 1998
Archival Collection:: The Joshua Lederberg Papers (Profiles in Science)

2. Petition to the United States Congress and the President of the United States urging the allowing of federally-funded biomedical scientists to conduct research with human pluripotent stem cells

Publication:: Produced: 1999
Archival Collection:: The Joshua Lederberg Papers (Profiles in Science)

3. Petition to President Lyndon Johnson expressing concern over existing restraints on employment of chemical and biological weapons

Publication:: Produced: 1966
Archival Collection:: The Joshua Lederberg Papers (Profiles in Science)

4. Memorandum from Harold Varmus to members of the human retrovirus subcommittee of the Retrovirus Study Group [on the final proposal to the medical journals on the nomenclature of the AIDS virus]

Publication:: Produced: 17 January 1986
Subject(s):: HIV
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Terminology as Topic
Archival Collection:: The Harold Varmus Papers (Profiles in Science)

5. [Open] Letter to Edward Knapp, National Science Foundation

Publication:: Produced: 20 November 1983
Archival Collection:: The Joshua Lederberg Papers (Profiles in Science)

6. My Conscience Will Not Allow Me to Protect Myself by Sacrificing These Idealistic Young People. I Am Not Going To Do It!

Publication:: New York Times Company, 1960
Archival Collection:: The Joshua Lederberg Papers (Profiles in Science)

7. Open Letter to Congress

Publication:: Produced: 12 March 1986
Archival Collection:: The Marshall W. Nirenberg Papers (Profiles in Science)

8. 80 American Leaders, 16 of Them Nobel Laureates, Ask U.S. Government to Initiate Renewed Action in the U.N. and Outside It to Induce Arab States to Negotiate Directly with Israel for Peace Settlement

Publication:: Produced: September 1967
Archival Collection:: The Joshua Lederberg Papers (Profiles in Science)

9. Petition to President Richard M. Nixon

Publication:: Produced: 1969
Archival Collection:: The Joshua Lederberg Papers (Profiles in Science)

10. Letter from Cass Canfield to Joshua Lederberg

Publication:: Produced: 3 October 1962
Archival Collection:: The Joshua Lederberg Papers (Profiles in Science)

11. Petition urging the ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1996

Publication:: Produced: [1996]
Archival Collection:: The Joshua Lederberg Papers (Profiles in Science)

12. Petition from Nobel Laureates to President Richard M. Nixon protesting involvement in Vietnam War

Publication:: Produced: May 1970
Archival Collection:: The Joshua Lederberg Papers (Profiles in Science)

13. Let Us Take the Initiative

Publication:: Produced: 11 February 1965
Subject(s):: Ethics
Archival Collection:: The Salvador E. Luria Papers (Profiles in Science)

14. Let Us Stop the Bloodshed

Publication:: Produced: 19 October 1965
Subject(s):: Ethics
Archival Collection:: The Salvador E. Luria Papers (Profiles in Science)

15. Letter from Linus Pauling to Salvador E. Luria [An Appeal by American Scientists to the Governments and People of the World]

Publication:: Produced: 15 May 1957
Subject(s):: Ethics
Archival Collection:: The Salvador E. Luria Papers (Profiles in Science)

16. Letter from Salvador E. Luria to Linus Pauling

Publication:: Produced: 25 July 1960
Subject(s):: Ethics
Archival Collection:: The Salvador E. Luria Papers (Profiles in Science)

17. Letter from Linus and Ava Helen Pauling to Salvador E. Luria

Publication:: Produced: 15 January 1961
Subject(s):: Ethics
Archival Collection:: The Salvador E. Luria Papers (Profiles in Science)

18. An Open Letter to the American People: A Count of Broken Promises

Publication:: Washington Post Company, 7 July 1966
Subject(s):: Ethics
Archival Collection:: The Salvador E. Luria Papers (Profiles in Science)

19. Draft of open letter to President Carter

Publication:: Produced: [ca. 7 September 1977]
Subject(s):: Ethics
Archival Collection:: The Salvador E. Luria Papers (Profiles in Science)

20. Petition on behalf of colleagues at Boston University

Publication:: Produced: 5 November 1979
Subject(s):: Ethics
Archival Collection:: The Salvador E. Luria Papers (Profiles in Science)