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My Worry Is That Other Advances In Science May Result In Other Means Of Mass Destruction, Maybe More Readily Available Even Than Nuclear Weapons. Genetic Engineering Is Quite A Possible Area, Because Of These Dreadful Developments That Are Taking Place There.

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.

My Short-term Vision Is The Abolition Of Nuclear Weapons. My Long-term Vision Is The Abolition Of War.

I Did Not Imagine That The Second Half Of My Life Would Be Spent On Efforts To Avert A Mortal Danger To Humanity Created By Science.

So I Ask The Nuclear Powers To Abandon The Out-of-date Thinking Of The Cold War Period And Take A Fresh Look.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