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One Might Be Led To Question Whether The Scientists Acted Wisely In Presenting The Statesmen Of The World With This Appalling Problem. Actually There Was No Choice. Once Basic Knowledge Is Acquired, Any Attempt At Preventing Its Fruition Would Be As Futile As Hoping To Stop The Earth From Revolving Around The Sun.

The Fundamental Point In Fabricating A Chain Reacting Machine Is Of Course To See To It That Each Fission Produces A Certain Number Of Neutrons And Some Of These Neutrons Will Again Produce Fission.

Experimental Confirmation Of A Prediction Is Merely A Measurement. An Experiment Disproving A Prediction Is A Discovery.

It Does Not Say In The Bible That All Laws Of Nature Are Expressible Linearly!

The Fact That No Limits Exist To The Destructiveness Of This Weapon [the 'super', I.e. The Hydrogen Bomb] Makes Its Very Existence And The Knowledge Of Its Construction A Danger To Humanity As A Whole. It Is Necessarily An Evil Thing Considered In Any Light. For These Reasons, We Believe It Important For The President Of The United States To Tell The American Public And The World What We Think Is Wrong On Fundamental Ethical Principles To Initiate The Development Of Such A Weapon.