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Quaker meeting sponsors discussion of nuclear weapons responsibility

Former nuclear weapon designer Theodore Taylor spoke at Mickleton Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends on Monday, April 20, 1998, about nuclear weapons and personal responsibility. The session was tape-recorded, transcribed, and posted here.

In the 1950s, Dr. Taylor worked on weapon design at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Since then, his career took him through work on nuclear reactors and spacecraft propulsion, to service on the Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island. Now, Dr. Taylor is a visiting fellow at Princeton University's Center for Energy and Environmental Studies. As a board member of the Nuclear Control Institute, he is an activist with concerns for nuclear disarmament, environmental protection, and renewable energy sources.

Among his awards, Dr. Taylor has received the Ernest O. Lawrence Award from the Atomic Energy Commission, the Secretary of Defense Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service, and the Distinguished Citizen's Award from the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.