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Paul Carpino papers, 1973-2020

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Carpino, Paul
Title
Paul Carpino papers
Dates
1973-2020 (inclusive)
Quantity
3.5 linear feet, (7 boxes)
Collection Number
ACCN 3209
Summary
The Paul Carpino Papers (1973-2020) consist primarily of materials related to the grassroots movement of people against the MX missile proposed in the Great Basin region.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

Paul Carpino is from Helena, Montana and a native of Hartford, Connecticut. Carpino spent most of his life working on social justice projects in Montana. After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, he completed high school in Hartford and graduated from the University of Montana with a B.A. in social work in 1954.

Carpino is an avid cross country and downhill skier, photographer, backpacker, and runner.

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Content Description

The Paul Carpino Papers (1973-2020) consist primarily of materials related to the grassroots movement of people against the MX missile proposed in the Great Basin region. Arranged by subject, the established movements include the Great Basin MX Alliance, The National Campaign to Stop the MX, Western Action, MX Roadshows, Run for Peace, and Ranchers for Peace. Included in these efforts are correspondence, agendas, press releases, newsletters, notes, printed and informational materials. The bulk of the papers consist of photocopies and clippings of articles related to the MX missile. The photocopies and clippings of articles are arranged by state: Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming. Articles from other publications are arranged chronologically under the subject MX (Weapons system).

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arranged by subject.

Acquisition Information

Donated by Paul Carpino (c/o Lynne Hutton, executor) in 2021.

Processing Note

Processed by Gina C Giang in 2022.

Separated Materials

Four slides were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: Air University (U.S.). Air War College

    The Military Balance reprinted from the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

    Dates: 1979
    Container: Box 1, Folder 1
  • Description: Antinuclear movement

    A position paper on the MX missile system by the International Peace and Issues Forum; Raleigh Peace Initiative pamphlet; Rocky Flats Action Group (Denver, Colo.) newsletter, volume 5, number 7; Nuclear Winter, Silent Spring by the Natural Resources Defense Council booklet; Union of Concerned Scientists, MX Missile Experimental: A Report to Union of Concerned Scientist Sponsors; American Friends Services Committee Call to Halt the Nuclear Arms Race; On October 2, 1981, President Reagan announced that the MX Missile…, sample letters; and fliers.

    Dates: 1981-1984
    Container: Box 1, Folder 2
  • Description: Antinuclear movement -- Idaho

    Water for Life and INEL: Crossroads of the Nuclear Arms Race booklets; and The Idaho Sun, volume 2, number 3.

    Dates: 1981
    Container: Box 1, Folder 3
  • Description: Antinuclear movement -- Montana

    Regional Resource Consultants pamphlet; Headwaters Alliance materials; Catholic Bishops of Montana response; photocopy of letter from John McNamer to elected officials; Montana Network for Nuclear Disarmament list; fliers; and newsletters.

    Dates: 1980-1982
    Container: Box 1, Folder 4
  • Description: Antinuclear movement -- Nevada

    MX Business Opportunity, volume 1 number 3; Franciscan Center, volume 3, number 6; According to the Nevada Department of Wildlife the proposed MX missile system will have grave consequences…; photocopy of letter from Dean C. Stubbs, White Pine Junior High School to Dr. Bruce Wilkin; photocopy of letter from Mark Bird to Ballistic Missile Office; and Native Nevadans for Political Education and Action.

    Dates: 1981
    Container: Box 1, Folder 5
  • Description: Antinuclear movement -- Utah

    The Mobile Land-Based MX - A National Security Disaster by B. Kent Harrison; Bill Moyers' Journal The MX Debate by Thirteen; The MX Missile and You press release; Grantsville Senior Citizen Center resolution; photocopy of letter from Josie Health from Action Region VIII; Dan Marriot's press release; photocopies of letters from citizens; and Wasatch Opinion Research Corporation related to public opinion.

    Dates: 1980
    Container: Box 1, Folder 6
  • Description: Arms Control Association (Washington, D.C.)

    Arms Control Today newsletters and photocopies, volume 11, number 5; and volume 10, number 11.

    Dates: 1981
    Container: Box 1, Folder 7
  • Description: Center for Defense Information (Washington, D.C.)

    The Defense Monitor newsletters and photocopies, volume 8, number 9; volume 9, number 9; volume 10, number 2; volume 10, number 3; and direct mail.

    Dates: 1979-1981
    Container: Box 1, Folder 8
  • Description: Citizens' Call

    Excerpt of Frances Farley's speech and How Safe Are the Underground Tests? booklet.

    Dates: 1980
    Container: Box 1, Folder 9
  • Description: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

    Clipping and copies of A Statement from the Mormon Church on Basing of the MX Missile.

    Dates: 1980-1981
    Container: Box 1, Folder 10
  • Description: Colorado

    Photocopies and clippings of newspaper articles related to MX missile from Colorado publications.

    Dates: 1978-1983
    Container: Box 1, Folder 11
  • Description: Council for Livable World

    Newsletters, February and April 1981; and Immediate Danger from a Single One Megaton Nuclear Weapon Air Burst Over the Utah State Capitol map.

    Dates: 1981
    Container: Box 1, Folder 12
  • Description: Council on Economic Priorities

    Draft of MX 'Race-track' Deployment in the Great Basin and Misguided Expenditure by David Gold.

    Dates: 1980-1981
    Container: Box 1, Folder 13
  • Description: Edwin Brown Firmage

    Testimony before the Air Force Draft Environmental Impact Statement hearing; MX and Reverse Darwinism: The Survival of the Last Fit Basing Mode; summary of remarks; and a flier.

    Dates: 1980-1981
    Container: Box 2, Folder 1
  • Description: Energy

    Materials related to People Organized to Win Energy and MX Information Center.

    Dates: 1980-1981
    Container: Box 2, Folder 2
  • Description: Eugene V. (Eugene Victor) Rostow, 1913-2002

    Opening Statement before the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Hearings on the Confirmation.

    Dates: 1981
    Container: Box 2, Folder 3
  • Description: Federation of American Scientists

    Memorandum on the Question of Silo Vulnerability and the MX.

    Container: Box 2, Folder 4
  • Description: Friends of the Earth

    Photocopy of newsletter, volume 2, number 2; Update to MX Activists; Budget Process; and memorandum.

    Dates: 1980-1981
    Container: Box 2, Folder 5
  • Description: General materials

    Kee Bird, Final Edition newsletter; Doris Williams campaign flier; photocopy of National Committee Against Repressive Legislation memorandum; and My eXit sticker.

    Dates: 1980-2020
    Container: Box 2, Folder 6
  • Description: Great Basin MX Alliance

    Meeting materials; notes; newsletters; press releases; printed materials; Comments on NEPA and the Environmental Analysis Process; and A Discussion on the Air Force's Draft Site Selection Environmental Impact Statement on the MX Missile System.

    Dates: 1980-1981
    Container: Box 2, Folder 7
  • Description: Greenpeace International

    Printed materials.

    Dates: 1981
    Container: Box 2, Folder 8
  • Description: HDR Sciences

    Summary of Scoping for the MX: Deployment Area Selection/Land Withdrawal Environmental Impact Statement.

    Dates: 1980
    Container: Box 2, Folder 9
  • Description: Herbert Scolville

    Draft of MX: Prescription for Disaster by Henry Scolville.

    Dates: 1981
    Container: Box 2, Folder 10
  • Description: Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies (U.S.)

    Strategy for a Concerned National Effort to Halt the Nuclear Arms Race: First Draft.

    Dates: 1980
    Container: Box 3, Folder 1
  • Description: Intercontinental ballistic missile bases

    Photocopies of United States. Air Force IV Basing Mode Evaluation and MX Basing; National Security Posture for the United States by Jake Garn and Paul Laxalt; MX Basing Mode Resolution, 1980; MX Basing Alternative; MX Impact Planning Act, 1981, S.B. 123; and press releases.

    Dates: 1980-1981
    Container: Box 3, Folder 2
  • Description: Jake Garn

    Letters to Mary Ochs and from Provo City Schools related to MX missile; and press release.

    Dates: 1981
    Container: Box 3, Folder 3
  • Description: "The Last Epidemic"

    Photocopies of materials related to the film.

    Dates: 1981
    Container: Box 3, Folder 4
  • Description: Montana

    Photocopies and clippings of newspaper articles related to MX missile from Montana publications.

    Dates: 1980-1983
    Container: Box 3, Folder 5-6
  • Description: MX (Weapons system)

    Photocopies and clippings of articles from various publications.

    Dates: 1978-1982
    Container: Box 3, Folder 7-9
  • Description: MX (Weapons system)

    Photocopies of "The MX Proposal"; "Potential Development in Utah (By Project)"; "Vulnerability of the MX" by J.E. Anderson; and "MX and the American Economy."

    Container: Box 4, Folder 1
  • Description: MX Information Center

    Direct mail; MX Update newsletters; printed materials; reports; informational materials; MX: An ICBM Primer; "The Carter Administration and the Air Force are committed to deploying a new…" draft; and Utah MX Voter Guide.

    Dates: 1980-1981
    Container: Box 4, Folder 2
  • Description: MX Missile Policy Board

    Comments on the MX Deis and ETRs.

    Container: Box 4, Folder 3
  • Description: The Nation

    Volume 232, number 3.

    Dates: 1981
    Container: Box 4, Folder 4
  • Description: National Campaign to Stop the MX (U.S.)

    Direct mail; press releases; legislative and house history; Preliminary Proposal for Development of an Independent Campaign to Stop the MX; and The MX Cartoon Book.

    Dates: 1981
    Container: Box 4, Folder 5
  • Description: National Public Lands Advisory Council (U.S.)

    Issues and Questions Regarding the MX Missile System.

    Container: Box 4, Folder 6
  • Description: National Tour of Residents of Utah and Nevada

    Tour report of MX: Destruction of the West Threat to the Nation.

    Dates: 1981
    Container: Box 4, Folder 7
  • Description: Nebraska

    Photocopies and clippings of newspaper articles related to MX missile from Nebraska publications.

    Dates: 1980-1981
    Container: Box 4, Folder 8
  • Description: Nevada

    Photocopies and clippings of newspaper articles related to MX missile from Nevada publications.

    Dates: 1978-1995
    Container: Box 4, Folder 9
  • Description: Nevada

    Photocopy of letter from Robert List in response to MX Deployment Area Selection and Land Withdrawal/Acquisition Draft Environmental Impact Statement; Nevadans Opposed to MX newsletters; and Sagebrush Alliance newsletters.

    Dates: 1980-1981
    Container: Box 4, Folder 10
  • Description: Nevada Cattlemen's Association

    Correspondence; press release; printed materials; legal materials in opposition of the MX missile; and The Federal Land Policy Management Act and Air Force Temporary Use Permits on the Public Lands.

    Dates: 1981
    Container: Box 5, Folder 1
  • Description: Newsweek

    June 8, 1981 and October 5, 1981.

    Dates: 1981
    Container: Box 5, Folder 2
  • Description: Orrin Hatch

    Letter to Urcy Belle Demings related to MX missile.

    Dates: 1981
    Container: Box 5, Folder 3
  • Description: Paul Carpino

    Letters to and from Caprino; notes; United States. Department of Transportation medical certificates.

    Dates: 1976-1981
    Container: Box 5, Folder 4
  • Description: Radiation effects

    Citizens' Hearings for Radiation Victims, Panel Statement and Radiation Facts by Environmental Policy Institute (Washington, D.C.) and printed materials.

    Dates: 1979-1981
    Container: Box 5, Folder 5
  • Description: Ranchers for Peace

    Photocopies and clippings of articles related to the event.

    Dates: 1982-1983
    Container: Box 5, Folder 6
  • Description: Resource Concepts, Inc.

    Potential Impacts of MX Deployment on Ranch Management and Ranch Economics study.

    Dates: 1980
    Container: Box 5, Folder 7
  • Description: Robert F. (Robert Frederick) Bennett, 1927-2000

    Photocopy of letter to Jimmy Carter, 1924 related to MX mobile missile system.

    Dates: 1978
    Container: Box 5, Folder 8
  • Description: Run for Peace

    Writings; press releases; photocopies and clippings of articles related to the event.

    Dates: 1982
    Container: Box 5, Folder 9
  • Description: SANE, Inc.

    Correspondence; press releases; printed materials; meeting materials; and Questions for MX Hearings.

    Dates: 1981
    Container: Box 5, Folder 10
  • Description: Sierra Club

    Materials related to MX Conference Moving Forward.

    Dates: 1980-1981
    Container: Box 5, Folder 11
  • Description: Social Impact Committee

    Notes; agenda; and photocopies.

    Dates: 1981
    Container: Box 6, Folder 1
  • Description: U.S. News and Report

    Volume 91, number 2.

    Dates: 1981
    Container: Box 6, Folder 2
  • Description: United States. Air Force

    The MX System and the Environment pamphlet; How M-X Will Work: M-X Public Service Communications brochure; and press release.

    Dates: 1979
    Container: Box 6, Folder 3
  • Description: United States. Air Force

    Materials related to Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) hearings.

    Dates: 1980-1981
    Container: Box 6, Folder 4
  • Description: United States. Congress

    Photocopies from the Congressional Record, Congressional Quarterly, Congressional Research Service, Concurrent Resolution by Dan Marriott, and lists.

    Dates: 1980-1981
    Container: Box 6, Folder 5
  • Description: United States. Defense Civil Preparedness Agency

    Photocopies of High Risk Areas: For Civil Preparedness Nuclear Defense Planning Purposes.

    Dates: 1975
    Container: Box 6, Folder 6
  • Description: United States. General Accounting Office

    Photocopies of The MX Weapon System: Issues and Challenges and The MX Weapon System -- A Program with Cost and Schedule Uncertainties reports.

    Dates: 1981
    Container: Box 6, Folder 7
  • Description: University of Utah

    Health Effects of Nuclear War conference materials.

    Dates: 1981
    Container: Box 6, Folder 8
  • Description: Utah

    Photocopies and clippings of newspaper articles related to MX missile from Utah publications.

    Dates: 1979-1982
    Container: Box 6, Folder 9-11
  • Description: Utah. Office of the Governor

    Photocopies of letters related Utah's environmental impact statements.

    Dates: 1980-1981
    Container: Box 7, Folder 1
  • Description: Utah Environment Center

    Newsletters.

    Dates: 1981
    Container: Box 7, Folder 2
  • Description: Utah MX Coordination Office

    Agenda; memorandums; and notes related to Utah Environmental Working Group.

    Dates: 1981-1982
    Container: Box 7, Folder 3
  • Description: Utah State Coalition of Senior Citizens

    Printed materials and photocopy of letters from Paul Carpino to Dick Boone.

    Dates: 1980-1981
    Container: Box 7, Folder 4
  • Description: Utahns United Against MX and Utahns United Against the Nuclear Arms Race

    Correspondence; press releases; meeting materials; notes; and Statement by Edwin Firmage, 1982.

    Dates: 1981-1982
    Container: Box 7, Folder 5
  • Description: Vail (Colo.)

    Clippings related to development and land use.

    Dates: 1973-2005
    Container: Box 7, Folder 6
  • Description: Western Action

    Related to budget, projects, and proposals. Letters from Barbara E. Rose from the Rural Coalition and letter from Evan Hansen; correspondence; materials related to budget, projects, and proposals; MX Update Report; Organizing Grassroots Opposition to the MX: A Proposal to The Rockefeller Family Fund; Proposal to The Field Foundation.

    Dates: 1978-1982
    Container: Box 7, Folder 7
  • Description: Western Action

    Agendas; printed materials; resumes; notes; correspondence; reports; informational materials; press releases; Strategic Lunacy: An Evaluation of the Proposed Deployment of the MX Missile in the Great Basin; MX: Strategy of Disaster by Edwin Firmage; A Demonstration of Bureaucratic Stupidity… remarks at Kingsbury Hall; and Final Report related to the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain MX Roadshow.

    Dates: 1981
    Container: Box 7, Folder 8
  • Description: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

    Fliers.

    Container: Box 7, Folder 9
  • Description: Wyoming

    Photocopies and clippings of newspaper articles related to MX missile published in Wyoming.

    Dates: 1981-1982
    Container: Box 7, Folder 10

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Subject Terms

  • Antinuclear movement
  • Intercontinental ballistic missile bases
  • MX (Weapons system)
  • MX (Weapons system)--Public opinion

Corporate Names

  • Great Basin MX Alliance
  • MX Information Center
  • National Campaign to Stop the MX (U.S.)

Form or Genre Terms

  • Articles
  • Fliers (Ephemera)
  • Newsletters
  • Press releases
  • clippings (information artifacts)
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