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the purpose ot Usis stalemmet, avert it. 2 mand surnaany ah a wi ae The first move came as 2 snd We have to learn to think in national ee Bae ae Jaboration between Einstein 20°’, new way. We have to learn te|Pechaps impedes understanding of myself. Einstein's sigeature ee task ourselves, not what steps can/ 6 situation more than anything. given in the last week of his life.) taken to give military victory |@lse is that the term “mankind ince his death I have approache? 4, whatever group we prefer, for|feels vague and ubstract, People men of sgientific competence there no longer are such ste i ps; scarcely realize in inmagination that gm the East and in the West OF lithe question we have to ask our-|the danger is to themselves anc political disagreements shou net selves is: what steps cap be taken their children and their gras A influence men of science in est)ig prevent a military contest oflchildren, and not only to a dimly mating what is probable, but some 10 pir the issue must be disastrous apprehended humanity, ‘They can of those approached hove pe to all parties? scarcely bring themselves ta grasp replied. i ned ree ‘ M a tories The - general public, and even that they, individually, and those ing pronqua y the sig many men in position of author- ity, have not realized what would be involved in a war with nuclear bombs. The general public still thinks in terms of the obliteration of cities. Ibis understood that the new bombs are more wertul than the old, and that, w, ile one ‘A-bomb could obliterate Hiro- shima, one H-bomb could obliter- ate the largest cities, such 9s don, New York and Moscow. A 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 eamest hope that they may agree and Moscow were exterminated to allow their’ citizens to survive. the world might, in the course of Whom they love are in imminent a few centuries, recover from the danger of perishing agonizingly. SCIENTISTS’ STATEMENT Iblow. But we now know, espe- And so they hope that perhaps cially since the Bikini test, that) 4 ‘deed be allowed to continue nuclear bombs can gradually, Provide modern weapons are spread distruction over a ve prohibited. ference to appraise the perils that much , wider area than had been ILLUSORY have arisen as a result of the supposed. i de-? This hope is ill i velopment of weapons of inass de-| _ It is stated on very good au- agreements not to tse Vhoeke struction, and to discuss a resoly-thority that a bomb ean now be had been reached in time of ace tion in the spirit of the appended manufactured which will be 2,500;they would no longer be consid. valk. times as powerful as that which‘ered binding in ti ] tim werfu ading in time wv are speaking on this oe-destroyed Hiroshima, iboth sides would set asinine casion, not as members of this Such a bomb, if exploded near Manufacture H-bombs as soon as|sen the fear of a sudden attack in of ‘thal yration, co inent or creed, the ground or under water, sends; War broke out, for, if one sidejthe style of Pearl Harbor, which the eee an beings, members of radioactive particles into the up- manufactured the bombs and the at present keeps both sides in a the species m: 9, swhose, continued ‘per aie They sink gradually and other did not, the side that manu-(staic of nervous apprehension, We i f ivts; » overshad- in of a deadly dust or rain, | Victorious. [an a hougl | ; awing all minor conflicts, the It was this dus ich j ' i ihr wiry . . P t which infected tl Alth first : owing a tw dus he though an agreement to re-|!t step. titi a ruggle between commu Japanese fishermen and their catch nounce nuclear wen pons as part Most of us are not nentral inf . . |of a general reduction of arma- feeling, but, as human beings, we By | : r In the tragic situation which confronts humanity, w feel that scientists should assemble in con- Almost everybod : | ; ; litically py eo eel. lethal One ano aeidely sue mate ; Aeron it aferd an ult (have to roe ad aren it \ . . e Solution, it NU Ci my ings about phe OF more ofthese be diffused, but the best authori-' tain importunt purposes. “et ta be desided in Sa manner that can, to set aside such feelings vad a Near ith H bom in saying that| First: any agreement between|can give any possible satisfaction consider yourselves only as memn-. sibl with H-bombs might quite!East and West is to the good in to anybedy, whether Communist if bers of a bivlogical species whi bien : A put an end to the human;so far as it tends to diminish ten-lof anti-Communist, whether Asian has had a remarkable histor and H-bo bs is feared that if many)sion. Second: the: abolition of{°T European or American, whether § whose disappearaice none Ye ‘H-bombs are used there. will be|thermonuclear weapons, if each|White or black, then these issues BRE eM of us universal death—sudden only foriside believed that the other hadi Must not be decided bv war. We