In 1955, a decade after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki late in World War II, scientists Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell signed a manifesto calling on scientists, political leaders and the public to stop nuclear weapons from devastating the world.

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