I Appeal To My Fellow Scientists To

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.

Indeed, The Whole Human Species Is Endangered, By Nuclear Weapons Or By Other Means Of Wholesale Destruction Which Further Advances In Science Are Likely To Produce.

But The Nuclear Powers Still Cling Tenaciously To Their Weapons.

The Quest For A War-free World Has A Basic Purpose: Survival. But If In The Process We Learn How To Achieve It By Love Rather Than By Fear, By Kindness Rather Than By Compulsion; If In The Process We Learn To Combine The Essential With The Enjoyable, The Expedient With The Benevolent, The Practical With The Beautiful, This Will Be An Extra Incentive To Embark On This Great Task.

So I Ask The Nuclear Powers To Abandon The Out-of-date Thinking Of The Cold War Period And Take A Fresh Look.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.