Pauling writes to the US Planning Committee for the Conferences on Science and World Affairs to suggest changing the method of picking the participants in Conferences on Science and World Affairs. He suggests, "To have such a good-sized group of participants from one country fail to join in the resolution constitutes a danger to the conferences. Moreover, the five who did not join in the resolution are not distinguished U.S. scientists. From the limited knowledge that I have about them, I judge that they are people who have specialized in the study of military problems." They were Bowie, Donald Brennan, Katz, Henry Kissinger, and Lipson.