Columbia Scholar Spurred Antiwar Movement (New York Times): I consider Melman to be one of the patron saints of the antiwar movement. He transformed opposition to the war with his concept of nuclear ‘overkill,’ his refutation of the simplistic assertions that war is good for the economy and his articulation of a roadmap for conversion of warfighting resources to peaceful uses. Perhaps his most powerful propaganda stroke was helping the public envision defense expenditures by describing them in terms of their equivalents in budgeting for human needs. Let us hope he can rest in peace after more than a half-century of struggling for peace, despite the state of the world…