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Forty-one American Nobel Laureates in economics and science, including nine laureates in chemistry, have signed a declaration urging President George W. Bush not to act against Iraq if the U.S. lacks international support. The moving force behind the declaration was Walter Kohn, a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a 1998 chemistry laureate. "The undersigned oppose a preventive war against Iraq without broad international support," the declaration reads. "Military options against Iraq may lead to a relatively swift victory in the short term. But war is characterized by surprise, human loss, and unintended consequences. Even with a victory, we believe that the medical, economic, environmental, moral, spiritual, political, and legal consequences of an American preventive attack on Iraq would undermine, not protect, U.S. security and standing in the world." The other eight chemistry laureates who signed the declaration are Paul Berg, 1980, Stanford University; Paul D. Boyer, 1997, UC Los Angeles; Robert F. Curl Jr., 1996, Rice University; Herbert A. Hauptman, 1985, Hauptman-Woodward Research Institute, Buffalo; Alan J. Heeger, 2000, UC Santa Barbara; Yuan T. Lee, 1983, UC Berkeley; William N. Lipscomb, 1976, Harvard University; and Ahmed H. Zewail, 1999, California Institute of Technology. |
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