Description:
"Statement by 8 eminent scientists & self ..."; notes for press conference to launch Russell-Einstein manifesto
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Case Study:
“Remember your humanity, and forget the rest”: The Russell-Einstein Manifesto and the Pugwash Movement
Creator:
Russell, Bertrand
Source:
manuscript
Date:
July 1955
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Contributer:
McMaster University Libraries
Rights:
Copyright, public domain: McMaster University owns the rights to the archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format.
Identifier:
00001212-3
Language:
eng
Type:
image
Format:
jpg
Transcript:
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Who's Who (continued)
Prof. Joseph Rotblat, director of research in nuclear physics Liverpool. Detective work about Bikini bomb. (Enlarge)
Hideki Yukawa Director research fund[amental] physics, Kyoto, Nobel Prize for physics.
Statement only 1st step.
Next, authoritative pronouncement on facts.
Next, internat. Congress, at which signatories would (I hope) prepare some such resolution at end of statement; meanwhile, same at earlier congresses.
Next, scientists make public & govts. aware of facts by popular campaign.
Persuade world avoid war, anyhow at first, ult[imately] by machinery to that end.
Science gives hope as well as fear.