Letter awarding Representative Les AuCoin the Herbert Scoville Award from the Union of Concerned Scientists

Title

Letter awarding Representative Les AuCoin the Herbert Scoville Award from the Union of Concerned Scientists

Description

Letter from Union of Concerned Scientists to Representative Les AuCoin, signed by Howard Ris, Executive Director and Charles Monfort, Washington Director. The letter, dated February 10th, 1988, awards Representative AuCoin the 1988 Herbert Scoville Award for "distinguished service in the advancement of arms control", noting his work against the MX missile and the Strategic Defense Initiative in particular. Senator Carl Levin shared the award in 1988. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. See also PUA_MS147_19 for image of Representative AuCoin and Senator Levin receiving their awards.

Creator

Union of Concerned Scientists|Ris, Howard|Monfort, Charles

Date Created

1988

Subject

Nuclear arms control
MX (Weapons system)
Nuclear disarmament
Legislators--United States
Correspondence

Place

Washington, D.C.

Identifier

PUA_MS147_86

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Type

Text