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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.

My Third Appeal Is To My Fellow Citizens In All Countries: Help Us To Establish Lasting Peace In The World.

Long Before The Terrifying Potential Of The Arms Race Was Recognized, There Was A Widespread Instinctive Abhorrence Of Nuclear Weapons, And A Strong Desire To Get Rid Of Them.

This Is The Reality Of Nuclear Weapons: They May Trigger A World War; A War Which, Unlike Previous Ones, Destroys All Of Civilization.

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.