Human Beings in a World of Arrogance and International Machoism (Letter to the Editor of the Baltimore Sun)

Digital Record

Identifier: 101584571X103

Staff Only

Digital Object (text)

Dates

6 July 1988

Extent

4 Pages

Creator

Anfinsen, Christian B. (Christian Boehmer), 1916-1995 (Creator, Person)

Description

In this letter to the "Baltimore Sun," Anfinsen responds to the accidental downing of an Iranian passenger plane by the U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf. Anfinsen used the incident as a platform to encourage the reduction of U.S. dependence on fossil fuels and to call for an end to the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the Strategic Defense Initiative.