Resource files,, 1940-2011

The resource files chiefly illustrate Doty’s efforts to promote arms control and international security agreements as well as his interaction with prominent arms control advocates in the United States and abroad. Letters in the Resource files correspondence include Doty’s comments and reflections on the nuclear freeze movement, weapons proliferation, and the strategic arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Several letters document his involvement with organizations dedicated to the elimination of weapons of mass destruction including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs. Resource files Conferences and trips and Resource files Institutions document Doty’s attendance at arms control and international security conferences, workshops, and seminars sponsored by the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, the Soviet-American Disarmament Studies group, the Dartmouth Conference, and the International Association for Cultural Freedom. Additionally, the meeting notebooks in the Resource files Journals contain the notes that Doty took at the meetings in which he participated. The files demonstrate Doty’s collaboration with colleagues to establish United States arms control policies and an international security framework to ensure world peace. These files also chronicle the governance of these organizations, the development of their arms control and international security programs, and their efforts to promote public support for effective arms control policies.

The resource files also include several groups of materials that contain articles, news clippings, conference papers, reports, book chapters, speeches, and congressional testimony written by Doty and other scholars that document the efforts of arms control advocates to control and eliminate weapons of mass destruction from the 1950s to 2000s. Doty’s writings, as well as those of his wife, Helga, and other Harvard colleagues related to biochemistry and microbiology are also included.

Two folders contain material relating to an inquiry in the early 1990s surrounding scientific research led by David Baltimore, about which Doty published an open letter in the journal Nature.

Casual and formal photographs (including slides and negatives) of Doty with family, friends, and colleagues from 1946 to 2007 at conferences, on vacation, at birthday parties, and social events are also included. News clippings, magazine articles, memorials, reprints, and funeral bulletins which Doty collected of friends and colleagues, including scientists and arms control advocates.