Russell, Bertrand, Manuscript, July 1955

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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
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Copyright, public domain: McMaster University owns the rights to the archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format.

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00001212-3
Language: 
eng
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image
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3
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.