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AN “Appeal to the Scientists of the World” has reached us from India. The author, Dr. Bhagavan Das of Benares, a member of the Legislative Assembly of India, refers to the imminent peril of another world war, far surpassing the last in horror and destructiveness, and the frightful strain meanwhile imposed on mankind by preparation for defence. He seeks to show that a heavy responsibility for this state of affairs rests on the learned world as a whole, partly because modern warfare owes its peculiarly devastating character to scientific research and the collaboration of men of science with the organizers of war and partly because the ideas that motivate wars are products of the speculations of philosophers
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Science and the Way to Peace. Nature 142, 247 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142247b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/142247b0