Conference on the World after Nuclear War
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[[Image:After nuclear war.JPG|thumb|300px|Artist's conception of the world after nuclear war. The Norther Hemisphere is covered by smoke and dust. - from the cover of the April, 1984 edition of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The Conference on the World after Nuclear War took place in 1983. The conference was attended by 700 people including dozens of scientists as well as people from foundations; from the 31 sponsoring organizations and other public interest groups; from religious, educational and medical institutions; from th epress, the U.S. government and several other governments; and from businesses such as Lockheed and Random House.[1]
Sponsors
The following organizations were sponsors of the conference:[1]
- American Institute of Biological Sciences
- American Society for Microbiology
- Canadian Nature Federation
- Common Cause
- The Ecological Society of America
- Environment Liason Centre
- Environmental Defense Fund
- Enviornmental Policy Institute
- Federation of American Scientists
- Friends of the Earth
- Global Tomorrow Coalition
- International Federation of Institutes for Advanced Study
- International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
- International Union of Biological Sciences
- National Audubon Society
- National Science teachers Association
- National Wildlife Federation
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- Open Space Institute
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America
- Sierra Club
- Smithsonian Institution
- The Institute of Ecology
- The Trust for Public Land
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- United Nations Association of the United States of America
- United Nations Environment Programme
- United Nations University
- The Wilderness Society
- World Resources Institute
- Zero Population Growth
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