Click here for PDF version | Vaya aquí para la versión española.

Appeal on the Sixtieth Anniversaries
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
August 6, 2005

The dreadful and destructive potential of the Nuclear Age was revealed to the world at Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and again at Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.

Ten years later, Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein issued an appeal warning that nuclear weapons confronted humanity with a choice: to renounce war or put an end to the human race.

In the 60th year of the Nuclear Age, our choice remains unchanged. Nuclear weapons remain a threat to all life. They should be made relics of the past.

The nuclear weapons states tempt disaster for all life by continuing to cling tenaciously to their nuclear weapons for a security that they cannot provide.

Nuclear disarmament and nuclear proliferation are inextricably linked. Without nuclear disarmament, nuclear proliferation will surely increase.

In the aftermath of the Cold War, there is no longer a deadly ideological standoff between rival blocs of nations. The way lies open to nuclear disarmament and an end to war.

We call upon the nuclear weapons states to put aside these weapons in the interests of a human future and fulfill their obligations to achieve nuclear disarmament.

We call upon people everywhere to demand the elimination of all nuclear weapons from the arsenals of all countries and, in the words of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, “Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.”

Signatories

• Abhay Ashtekar, Director of the Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, USA
• Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, UK
• Reiner Braun , Max Planck Institute for Science History, Germany
• Pierre Cannone, Former Head of TDB at the OPCW in The Hague and Pugwash Council, France
• Paul Crutzen, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry 1995, Germany/ Netherlands
• Vitaly Ginzburg, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics 2003, Russia
• David Gross, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics 2004, USA
• Dudley R. Herschbach, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry 1996, USA
• International Peace Bureau (IPB), Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1910, Switzerland
• International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1985, USA
• Jerome Karle, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry 1985, USA
• Walter Kohn, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry 1998, USA
• David Krieger , President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF); Deputy Chair of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for global responsibility (INES), USA
• Felicia Langer, Alternative Nobel Prize Laureate 1990, Israel
• Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1976, Ireland
• Ron McCoy, Co-chair of IPPNW, Malaysia
• Rigoberta Menchu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1992, India
• Claus Montonen, President of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for global responsibility (INES), Finland
• Valery Petrosyan, Director of the Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov University, Moscow, Russia
• John Polanyi, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry 1986, Canada
• Hon. Douglas Roche, Chair of the Middle Powers Initiative (MPI), Canada
• Sir Joseph Rotblat, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1995, UK
• John Stachel, Director of the Boston University Center for Einstein Studies, USA
• Jack Steinberger, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics 1988, CERN, Switzerland
• Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1984, South Africa
• Jakob von Uexküll, Founder of the Alternative Noble Prize/Right Livelihood Award, Sweden/Germany
• Gunnar Westberg, Co-chair of IPPNW, Sweden
• Joseph Weizenbaum, Professor emeritus of computer science, MIT, USA
• Betty Williams, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1976, US
• Alla Yaroshinskaya, Alternative Nobel Prize Laureate 1992, Russia