Professors Denounce Plans for Shelters

Four groups of letter-writing professors across the country have agreed that shelters create "a false sense of security" which increases the possibility of thermo nuclear war.

Professors from Columbia University are raising funds to distribute and reprint a letter published earlier this month by 200 Boston area professors urging President Kennedy to scrap plans for fallout shelters.

Almost 200 professors from universities in Cleveland have written their own letter to Kennedy opposing shelters. In language echoing the Boston appeal, the professors at Western Reserve University and Case Institute of Technology called the program "a cruel deception." To be really effective, they argue, it would require the entire capital investment of the country.

Eight professors of Physics at the University of Iowa have challenged the statement by Nobel Prize winning chemist Willard R. Libby that 90 to 95 per cent U.S. residents could survive an atomic attack with proper protection. They pointed out that Dr. Libby is considering particular kind of attack, and by no means the most probable.