Founding Document: Beyond March 4  On March 4, 1969, the day on
which the Union of Concerned Scientists held its very first
public event at MIT, the role and mission of the nascent group
was envisioned in a statement entitled "Beyond March 4"
distributed to the participants. Written on behalf of the UCS
founders by Kurt Gottfried, then a visiting professor at MIT and
currently chair emeritus of the UCS board of directors, the
following is an excerpt from this document:  "...the Stone Age
may return on the gleaming wings of Science, and what might now
shower immeasurable material blessings upon mankind, may even
bring about its total destruction. Beware, I say; time may be
short."  We are immersed in one of the most significant
revolutions in man's history.  The force that drives this
revolution is not social dissension or political ideology, but
relentless exploitations of scientific knowledge.  There is no
prospect that this revolution will subside; on the contrary, it
will continue to transform profoundly o