Russell–Einstein manifesto
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.031003
On this day in 1955 the Russell--Einstein manifesto was issued during a press conference at London’s Caxton Hall. The manifesto called for an international, politically neutral conference on the subject of nuclear weapons and the danger they posed for humanity. Besides Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein, the other signatories were Max Born, Percy Bridgman, Leopold Infeld, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Hermann Muller, Linus Pauling, Cecil Powell, Joseph Rotblat and Hideki Yukawa. The conference took place a year later in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, the hometown of the industrialist, Cyrus Eaton, who funded it. For his role in organizing the first and subsequent Pugwash conferences, Rotblat, who had quit the Manhattan Project on the grounds of conscience, was awarded the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize.
Date in History: 9 July 1955
