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ee aun Uk eal we Oe mand distasteful limitations of the purpose ot this statement. lavert it. . n The first move came as a COL We ave to Jearn to think in|national sovereignty. But what Jaboration between Einstein aud! | ew way, We have to learn to perhaps impedes understanding of, myself, Einst signature WS). ourselves, not what steps can\ te ete more than anything xiven in the last week of his lile.!4.6 taken to give military victory ia that the term “mankind? anny a , feels vague and ub: sis th I have approached Jes we prefer, for' gue and ubstract, People Since his death, Tw to whatever grou we such steps; | scarcely realize in imagination that sientific competence no longer a 2 , men of aie tific in the West, for| Ree eetion ee pave to ask ous-|the danger is to themselves and BA political disagreements: shou th ast ihat steps can be taken their children and their grand fluence men of sciene ti, Neves Ment a military contest of{children, and not only to a dimly Fobable, but some,‘ Prim Sue must be disastrous|apprehended humanity. They c hed have pot yetlig all parties? scarcely bring themselves to grasp einging the warn-[!° Panera public, and even|that they, individually, and those he signatories rien in position of author- ve not realized what would be involved in a war with nuclear bombs. The general public still thinks in terms of the obliteration of cities, If is understood that the |mew bombs are, more owerful; than the old, and that, while one VAcbomb could obliterate Hiro- Ishima, one H-bomb could obliter- Vate the largest cities, such as Lon: ldon, New York and Moscow. jA WIDER PERIL No doubt in an H-bomb war great cities would be obliterated. {But this is one of the minor dis- to the notice of all the powerful asters that would have to be faced. governments of the world in the’ If everybody in London, New York earnest hope that they may agree and Moscow were’ exterminated Pare Caritity their’ eitizene to survive. the world might, in the course of, Om they love are in imminent . . ° a few centuries, recover from the danger of perishing agonizingly. SCIENTISTS’ STATEMENT —_|blow. But we now kuow, espe- And 50 they hope that perhaps In the tragic situath ich tially since the Bikini test, that, Wat 0 be allowed to continue in the tragic situation whic | provid modern weapons are nuclear bombs ean _gradvall confronts humanity, we feel th bombs gradually y jel that spread distruction over a very Prohibited. scientists should assem im - an peiontists ake ae cone much wider area than had been ILLUSORY have arisen as a result of the de. :"Pposed. This hope is illusory. Whatever velopment of weapons of mass de-| It is stated on very good au-'agreements not to use H-bombs struction, and to discuss a resolu-‘thority that a bomb can now be had been reached in time of peace, tion in the spirit of the appenged Manufactured which will be 2,500jthey would no longer be consid- drat. times as powerful as that whichlered binding in time of war, and We are speaking on this oc-\destroyed Hiroshima, iboth sides would set to work to casion, not as members of this| Such a bomb, if exploded near,manvfacture H-bombs as soon as of that nation, continent or creed, the ground or under water, sends! but as human beings, members of idiouctive particles into the up- inl mating what is 1 of those approac! replied. I am b ing pronounced by # jaan) lity, sen the fear of a sudden attack in war broke out, for, if one side|the style of Pearl Harbor, which manufactuced the bombs and the at present keeps both sides in a [hy the species man, whose continued:per air. They sink gradually and other did not, the side that manu- slate of nervous apprehension, We Bi tustnee is Me doubt, ‘The world Feach the surface of the earth in,{actured them would inevitably be shoub, therefore, welcome sucly is full of conflicts; and, overshad- the form of a deadly dust or rain,| Victorious. _ [an agreement, though only as a awing all. minor conflicts, the It was this dust which infected the| Although an agreement to_re- first step. titanic struggle between commu-| Japanese fishermen and their catch nounce nuclear weapons as part] Most of us are not nentral inf nism and anti-cominunism, lof fish, of a general reduction of arma-/feeling, but, as human beings, wef Almost everybody who is po-! No one knows how widely such,ments would not afford an ulti-have to remember that, if the is- Iitically conscious has strong teel- lethal radioactive particles might'mate solution, it would serve cer janes between East and West aref ings about. pne or more of these be diffused, but the best authori- tain important purposes. to be decided in any manner that issues; but we want you, if yon'ties are imanimous in saving that| First: any agreement between|can give any possible satisfaction can, to set aside such feelings and'a war with H-bombs might quite/East and West is to the good int? anybody, whether Communist consider yourselves only as mem- possibly put an end to the human!so far as it tends to diminish ten-/0f anti-Communist, whether Asian M bers of a biological species which!race. ‘It is feared that if many;sion, Second: the’ abolition ‘of|or European or American, whether & has had a remarkable history, and H-bombs are used there, will be|thermonuclear weapons, if each|White or black, then these issue whose disappearance none of us universal death—sudden only foriside believed that the other hadiMust not be decided by war. 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