In the 1960s and 1970s, amid decolonization and the Cold War battle for hearts and minds in newly independent … formulating programs to address other global challenges like climate change, pandemic disease, and nuclear war.
Rudolf Peierls
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A call to end arms: Abolishing nuclear weapons is a dream worth pursuing
John Polanyi is a Nobel laureate at the University of Toronto who has written widely on questions of war and peace. The following has been adapted …