Long Before The Terrifying Potential Of The

So I Ask The Nuclear Powers To Abandon The Out-of-date Thinking Of The Cold War Period And Take A Fresh Look. Above All, I Appeal To Them To Bear In Mind The Long-term Threat That Nuclear Weapons Pose To Humankind And To Begin Action Towards Their Elimination.

All Nuclear Weapon States Should Now Recognize That This Is So, And Declare - In Treaty Form - That They Will Never Be The First To Use Nuclear Weapons. This Would Open The Way To The Gradual, Mutual Reduction Of Nuclear Arsenals, Down To Zero.

But The First The General Public Learned About The Discovery Was The News Of The Destruction Of Hiroshima By The Atom Bomb. A Splendid Achievement Of Science And Technology Had Turned Malign. Science Became Identified With Death And Destruction.

Long Before The Terrifying Potential Of The Arms Race Was Recognized, There Was A Widespread Instinctive Abhorrence Of Nuclear Weapons, And A Strong Desire To Get Rid Of Them.

I Appeal To My Fellow Scientists To Remember Their Responsibility To Humanity.