On this day, July 9, in 1955,
- produced by Arturo Contreras
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The Russell-Einstein Manifesto was published in London by Bertrand Russell, Albert Einstein and nine other prominent scientists and intellectuals. The manifesto warned about the true threat of nuclear warfare, and suggested that the human race was in danger of total destruction if they continued producing and using nuclear weapons. Ten years earlier, the US had detonated the nuclear weapon at a test site in New Mexico. Months after, the US dropped atomic bombs on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing over 100,000 civilians in the blast and many more from the resulting radiation exposure. Since then, there has been a global race to see who could accumulate the most of these deadly weapons.
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