to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and in the long run to eliminate such arms.

for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms.

The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath.

So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look.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.

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.

This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.