J. G. Dash papers - Archives West

Overview of the Collection

Creator

Dash, J. G., 1923-

Title

J. G. Dash papers

Dates

1963-2003 (inclusive)

Quantity

4.98 cubic feet (5 boxes plus 3 sound tape reels)

Collection Number

4142

Summary

Correspondence, writings, and clippings of J.G. Dash, a professor of physics at the University of Washington, Seattle

Repository

University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu

Access Restrictions

Open to all users.

Request at UW

Languages

English

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Biographical Note

Jay Gregory Dash--known as Greg or J. G.--was a professor of physics at the University of Washington. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, on June 28, 1923 to parents Emanuel and Shirley Dash. After graduating from the City College of New York, Dash earned his Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University. He then served in the Navy during World War II, training as a radar technician in the Pacific. After the war, he worked at Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico until 1960, when he joined the faculty at the University of Washington in the department of physics. He remained at the University of Washington until his retirement. Dash died on November 28, 2010.

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Content Description

Correspondence, writings, clippings, slides, sound tape reels, and other papers pertaining to J.G. Dash’s work on arms control, conflict studies, and ground freezing technology for the control and remediation of hazardous chemical and radioactive wastes.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Organized into 2 accessions.

Accession No. 4142-001, J. G. Dash papers, 1964-1973
Accession No. 4142-002, J. G. Dash papers, 1963-2003

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Description: Accession No. 4142-001: J.G. Dash papers, 1964-1973
5" linear

Scope and Content: Correspondence, writings, and clippings; 1964-1973.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.
Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003

4.56 cubic feet (4 boxes plus 3 sound tape reels)

Scope and Content: Papers from J.G. Dash's involvement with arms control and conflict studies, as well as from his work on ground freezing technology for the control and remediation of hazardous chemical and radioactive wastes.

Materials include papers, slides, and sound tape reels related to Dash's work with arms control and conflict studies, particularly at the University of Washington. Of note are papers on the activities of the Graduate School Committee on Conflict Studies (which held weekly seminars and sponsored undergraduate courses, primarily focused on anti-ballistic missile defense and the causes of large-scale international conflict), files for courses about nuclear war, writings by Dash, Physicians for Social Responsibility programs, Star Wars clippings, space station proposals, files of speeches presented to local organizations, Strategic Defense Initiative files, and Union of Concerned Scientists papers and correspondence.

Also included are files from Dash's work with University of Washington Research and Development on ground freezing technology for the control and remediation of hazardous chemical and radioactive wastes. In 1990, UW research led to a proposal to apply ground freezing technology to immobilize leaking underground wastes. A brief newspaper report attracted the attention of RKK, Ltd., a small private technology development company that held a patent for such an application. A meeting in the UW Office of Technology Transfer led to a contract for UW, granting RKK exclusive privilege to a license for current and future inventions on relevant technology, and a "Know-How" contract for Professor J.G. Dash. Papers related to this work include RKK Technology Advisory Board membership materials and correspondence, patent applications for several inventions to immobilize and remediate underground hazardous and radioactive waste (all patents have been allowed to lapse), conference reports and reprints, and materials on Hanford waste tanks and oil files in Kuwait.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Acquisition Info: Greg Dash, 2005-08-15
- Description: Background materials and folder descriptions
  
  Dates: undated
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Graduate School Committee on Conflict Studies
  Scope and Content: The Graduate School Committee on Conflict Studies operated from about 1967-1984. Activities consisted of weekly interdisciplinary seminars by both faculty members and visitors. It also sponsored undergraduate courses and interdisciplinary undergraduate students. The principal concerns were the causes of large-scale international conflict. An outgrowth of the seminar was a small focus group on anti-ballistic missile defense. This group stimulated a widely-supported civic movement protesting the use of Fort Lawton as an anti-missile base. The protest was successful, and resulted in the Fort being released by the Department of Defense to become Seattle's Discovery Park.
  
  Dates: 1967-1981
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: PHYS 427: Disarmament
  Scope and Content: Seminar on arms control disarmament. Includes R.E. Peierls as a speaker.
  
  Dates: 1977
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Environmental Studies 221: The Problem of Nuclear Arms
  Scope and Content: Course notes.
  
  Dates: 1986
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: SMT 498: Arms, Citizens, and the Shape of the Future
  Scope and Content: Course in the social management of technology, with many invited lecturers.
  
  Dates: 1986
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)
  Scope and Content: Program of the Convocation on Medical Consequences of Star Wars.
  
  Dates: 1985-1986
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
  Scope and Content: Proposal, background papers, and correspondence.
  
  Dates: 1982-1988
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Reprints
  Scope and Content: Three articles by J.G. Dash on arms control.
  
  Dates: 1966
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Aviation Week
  Scope and Content: Articles on missile defense.
  
  Dates: 19783
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: SMT 498: Security in the Nuclear Age
  Scope and Content: Course in the social management of technology, with many invited lecturers.
  
  Dates: 1983
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Arms Race Course
  
  Dates: 1983
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
  Scope and Content: Letter to Jeremy Stone.
  
  Dates: 1984
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Science Policy and National Goals
  Scope and Content: Proposal for a University of Washington series.
  
  Dates: 1984
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: ENVS 498: Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War
  
  Dates: 1984
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Strategic Defense Initiative reports
  Scope and Content: Modern Physics article on gamma ray lasers, Office of Technology Assessment, "Directed Energy Missile Defense in the United States."
  
  Dates: 1984
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Bethe Colloquium
  Scope and Content: Dash introduction.
  
  Dates: 6 August 1985
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Star Wars
  Scope and Content: Science issues, including an x-ray laser.
  
  Dates: 1985
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Gorton-SANE meeting
  Scope and Content: Organization's meeting with Senator Gorton regarding nuclear testing.
  
  Dates: 26 August 1985
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Space Stations
  Scope and Content: Proposals for experiments.
  
  Dates: 1985
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Speeches to organizations
  Scope and Content: Talks given to MENSA, the Rotary Club, and King County Democrats.
  
  Dates: 1986
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Evening Course: Wars...Strategic Defense
  
  Dates: 1986
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Chemistry 86
  Scope and Content: "Beyond the Headlines" conference at the University of Washington.
  
  Dates: 13 November 1986
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Strategic Defense Initiative Forum
  Scope and Content: A public information forum sponsored by the King County Republican Women's Commission.
  
  Dates: 26 April 1986
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Strategic Defense Initiative Press Conference
  Scope and Content: Letter to Congressman John Miller and lobby information to Senator Gorton.
  
  Dates: 14 May 1985
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Pledge
  Scope and Content: Declaration of Opposition to the Strategic Defense Initiative
  
  Dates: 17 October 1985
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Testing letter
  Scope and Content: Fleagle and Dash, "Why We Continue Nuclear Testing," Seattle Times
  
  Dates: 6 August 1986
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Church Council of Greater Seattle
  Scope and Content: Global Security Studies Proposal
  
  Dates: 1986
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: War/Peace Studies
  Scope and Content: Proposal committee for peace and security studies
  
  Dates: March 1987
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Graser
  Scope and Content: Technology paper for Vali & Vali for gamma ray laser.
  
  Dates: January 1963
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Regan Strategic Defense Initiative
  Scope and Content: Clippings.
  
  Dates: 1987
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Discovery Park
  Scope and Content: Newsletter of the Forum on Physics and Society of the American Physics Society. Article by Greg Dash, "Seattle Won a Park in a Battle with a Missile System."
  
  Dates: 2003
  
  Container: Box 1, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Patent applications
  Scope and Content: Patent applications for several inventions to immobilize and remediate underground hazardous and radioactive waste. Patent fees were paid by RKK, Ltd. All patents have been allowed to lapse.
  
  Dates: 1990s
  
  Container: Box 1-2, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: RKK, Ltd. Technology Advisory Board correspondence
  
  Dates: 1990s
  
  Container: Box 1-2, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: SEG Corporation contract work
  
  Dates: 1990s
  
  Container: Box 2, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Kuwait oil fires
  
  Dates: 1990s
  
  Container: Box 2, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: General files
  
  Dates: 1990s
  
  Container: Box 3, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Patent information
  
  Dates: 1990s
  
  Container: Box 4, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Slides: "The Dream of an Impenetrable Shield: Ballistic Missile Defense in the Nuclear Age," by Barry M. Casper and Robert K. Goldman, Nuclear War Graphics Project, 100 Nevada Street, Northfield, MN 55057
  
  Dates: undated
  
  Container: Box 4, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Slides: Convocation: The Threat of Nuclear War
  
  Dates: 11 November 1981
  
  Container: Box 4, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Sound Reel A: Teller
  Scope and Content: A talk by Edward Teller to the Graduate School Committee on Conflict Studies.
  
  Dates: circa 1983
  
  Container: Reel 17, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Sound Reel B: Songs of War & Peace
  Scope and Content: Recorded for Introduction to Conflict Studies class.
  
  Dates: circa 1969
  
  Container: Reel 18, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003
- Description: Sound Reel C: Untitled
  
  Dates: undated
  
  Container: Reel 19, 4142-002
  
  Location: Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003

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Subject Terms

Arms control--Study and teaching--Washington (State)--Seattle
Hazardous substances--Study and teaching--Washington (State)--Seattle
Hazardous waste site remediation--Study and teaching--Washington (State)--Seattle
Peace--Study and teaching--Washington (State)--Seattle
Radioactive waste disposal--Study and teaching--Washington (State)--Seattle

Personal Names

Dash, J. G., 1923---Archives

Corporate Names

University of Washington. Department of Physics--Curricula
University of Washington. Department of Physics--Faculty--Archives
University of Washington. Environmental Engineering and Science Program--Curricula

Form or Genre Terms

Business correspondence
Records (Documents)
Sound recordings

Titles within the Collection

Conflicts--Study and teaching--Washington (State)--Seattle

Other Creators

Corporate Names
- University of Washington. University Archives

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Subject Terms

University Archives/Faculty Papers (University of Washington)

J. G. Dash papers, 1963-2003

Table of Contents

Overview of the Collection

Biographical Note

Content Description

Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Administrative Information

Arrangement

Detailed Description of the Collection

Accession No. 4142-002: J.G. Dash papers, 1963-2003

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Subject Terms

Personal Names

Corporate Names

Form or Genre Terms

Titles within the Collection

Other Creators

Corporate Names

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Subject Terms