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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
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Subject: Re: the defense industry and the graduating engineer.
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One place to start would be by writing to the following organizations:


	High Technology Professionals for Peace
	639 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 316
	Cambridge, MA 02139
	(617) 497-0605

HTPfP has both a political branch and an education branch, which runs, among
other things, an employment agency for people seeking high-tech work in
non-defense companies.  They put out a newsletter called "Technology and
Responsibility" -- articles in the current issue include titles like
"Electronics and Computer Development: A Military History" and "Mideast Oil: A
Question of National Security".  Dues are $25/year.


	Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
	437 Mundel Way
	Los Altos, CA 94022

(This is the address of the Palo Alto chapter, which is all I have at hand at
the moment.)  CPSR does primarily educational work on connections between new
computer technology and war, although there is growing interest in the group
in other issues like computers in the workplace, solidarity work with
Nicaragua, etc.  Their quarterly newsletter usually contains rather personal
articles on the ethical conflicts of working in computer R&D, as well.  One
CPSR member has compiled a bibliography on Computer Reliability and Nuclear
War (available for $1 from Alan Borning at the U. of Washington, Seattle, WA
98195 (CS Dept. FR-35)).


--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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