MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Forbes, Allan, Jr., 1919-2006
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1962
Volume: 4 item(s); 8 pg(s)
Scope and Content
Merton writes to Allan Forbes about the nuclear arms race, the possibility of the Unites States initiating a pre-emptive atomic weapons strike, and the error in thinking there could be a "limited" nuclear war. They also discuss religious roots of non-violence in the Quaker and Mennonite communities and the Catholic non-violence of Dorothy Day.
Biography
Allan Forbes, Jr. was "a documentary filmmaker, writer, and peace activist" who "helped found Council for a Livable World with Leo Szilard, the physicist who worked with the Manhattan Project, then tried to get the US government to promise not to use the atomic bomb against Japan." He writes to Merton from Philadelphia. (Source: Marquard, Bryan. "Allan Forbes; pacifist found direction in war." Obituary from The Boston Globe, online edition. 24 February 2006. Bellarmine University Library, Louisville, KY. 4 April 2008. ‹http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2006/02/24/allan_forbes_pacifist_found_direction_in_war/›.)
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See also Cold War Letters #65, #72, and #97, published in Witness to Freedom, pp. 48-49, 51, and 61-62; and see also the "Szilard, Leo" file for more information about the Council for a Livable World.
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