AGAIN WARNS ON NUCLEAR WAR
_At a news conference in Bonn, Germany, June 29, Dr, Linus C. Pauling, the only scientist in _the world to enjoy the distinc~ tion of winning two Nobel Prizes [for Chemistry and Peace] said that the odds on an atomic war breaking out in any given year are one in twenty.
It was not reported how he arrived at this figure or whether it signified that such a war is almost certain once within twenty years, But other thought~provoking figures were sent out on the wires,
Dr, Pauling said that it would take only ten per cent of the stock pile of nuclear weapons now available to kill 800,000,000 people in the most advanced parts of the world,
All the inhabitants of the United States, the Soviet Union and Europe would fall victim,
In some out-of-the-way areas like Australia there might be survivors. "but mutations would cause such changes that I am not sure we could say that humanity itself survived. 7
"When: the American scientist won ‘the Nobel Peace Prize last October, he said: “As we consider the facts about the capabilities of destruction that are possessed by the Soviet Union and the United States, we are forced to the conclusion that we are doomed to die if the world continues along the path of insanity."
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