Later Career
After the Manhattan Project, and then after his White House service, he was a professor of physical chemistry at Harvard for the rest of his career.
From 1962 to 1965, he chaired the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP).
In later years he was active in an antiwar organization, the Council for a Livable World. According to the Council biography of Kistiakowsky, "Kistiakowsky became increasingly doubtful about the possibility of changing politics from within the administrative channels in Washington. In 1968, Kistiakowsky severed his connections with the Pentagon to protest US involvement in Vietnam. After retiring from Harvard as professor emeritus in 1972, Kistiakowsky became even more involved in political activism in the areas of de-escalating the arms race and banning nuclear weapons. In 1977, he assumed the chairmanship of the Council for Livable World, campaigning to de-escalate the arms race and reorient the domestic political agenda."
He died in 1982 of cancer.
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