Collection contains correspondence, memoranda, agenda, minutes, grant proposals, technical reports, letters of recommendation, newspaper clippings, speeches, lectures, and other papers relating to Kistiakowsky's career as a teacher, researcher, policy advisor, and political activist. Includes materials pertaining to his academic duties at Harvard (1930-1971); his wartime involvement with the National Defense Research Committee and the Manhattan Project; his services as consultant to defense agencies and private corporations; his position as member, chairman, and consultant-at-large of the President's Science Advisory Committee (and as apecial assistant to the President for Science and Technology in the Eisenhower administration); his activities in the National Academy of Sciences (chairman of its Committee on Science and Public Policy from 1962 to 1965 and vice-president of NAS from 1965-1973); and his participation in organized efforts to deescalate the arms race (particularly his role as chairman for Council for a Livable World).