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Dear members and friends:

	The purpose of this letter is to announce a meeting of SENSE:

	Time: Wednesday December 17 8pm.

	Topic: Plans for Next Quarter

	Place: 846 Lathrop Drive, Stanford

	As most of you recall, the Stanford chapter of SENSE (Scientists
for Enlightenment on Nuclear Sources of Energy) got started last
Spring in connection with a visit by Professor Hans Bethe.  The motive
for its formation was fear that the anti-nuclear movement would succeed.
We regard nuclear energy as cheap enough and safe enough for the
country to rely on it as a major source over the next decades.

	Over the summer SENSE was dormant; it came to life
again with our first public meeting on Wednesday, November 12.
As you remember, there were three speakers - Richard Redmun on
energy requirements, Tom Connolly on disposal of radioactive wastes,
and Terry Trumbull on the legal consequences of the initiative.
The meeting got reasonably good publicity, and about 50 people came.
I was elected chairman at that meeting for an unstated term, but unless
someone objects, it will be the remainder of the academic year.  Russell
Taylor was confirmed as secretary.  It was hoped to hold another public
meeting in December, but nobody organized it.

	There will be a business meeting on %3Wednesday, December
17 at 8pm at my home 846 Lathrop Drive Stanford.
Its object will be to plan activities for the Winter Quarter.  We
agreed to try for one public meeting per month, and I suggest that
the speakers for each meeting be the responsibility of one person
who will also write the publicity with a standing publicity committee
in charge of getting it out.  It has also been suggested to challenge
Project Survival to a debate, and we need to get up a literature
list to recommend and it may also be worthwhile to write some critical
reviews of books and articles and other publicity recommended by
Project Survival.  There is also the proposal by Kermit Smith
to organize a technical conference aimed at leading people from the
technical societies to urge them to oppose the initiative.
These items are mentioned so people can start thinking, but the meeting
other proposals can be considered and adopted.

	I think we will be able to agree on effective ways of using any
time people can put into this important issue.


					John McCarthy (chairman)

P.S. If you can't come to the meeting but still want to to some work, e.g.
help organize one of the public meetings, please phone me 321-7580 home
and 497-4430 work.