Above All Remember Your Humanity.

So I Ask The Nuclear Powers To Abandon The Out-of-date Thinking Of The Cold War Period And Take A Fresh Look.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

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.

But Scientists On Both Sides Of The Iron Curtain Played A Very Significant Role In Maintaining The Momentum Of The Nuclear Arms Race Throughout The Four Decades Of The Cold War.

I Have To Bring To Your Notice A Terrifying Reality: With The Development Of Nuclear Weapons Man Has Acquired, For The First Time In History, The Technical Means To Destroy The Whole Of Civilization In A Single Act.

When The Start 2 Treaty Has Been Implemented - And Remember It Has Not Yet Been Ratified - We Will Be Left With Some 15,000 Nuclear Warheads, Active And In Reserve. Fifteen Thousand Weapons With An Average Yield Of 20 Hiroshima Bombs.