The Russell- Einstein Manifesto

24In the tragic situation which confrontshumanity, we feel that scientists shouldassemble in conference to appraise the perilsthat have arisen as a result of the developmentof weapons of mass destruction, and to discussa resolution in the spirit of the appended are speaking on this occasion, not asmembers of this or that nation, continent, orcreed, but as human beings, members of thespecies Man, whose continued existence is indoubt. The world is full of conflicts; and,overshadowing all minor conflicts, the titanicstruggle between Communism and everybody who is politicallyconscious has strong feelings about one or moreof these issues; but we want you, if you can, toset aside such feelings and consider yourselvesonly as members of a biological species whichhas had a remarkable history, and whosedisappearance none of us can shall try to say no single word whichshould appeal to one group rather than toanother.

Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Manifesto 50 good in so far as it tends to diminish tension. Second: the abolition of thermo-nuclear weapons, if each side believed that the other had carried it out sincerely,

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