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The Russell-Einstein Manifesto
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Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein, along with other scientists, issued the Russell-Einstein Manifesto in 1955, which appealed directly to global public opinion and aimed to get powerful governments to agree to allow their citizens to live without fear of war.

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