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THE debate of the Atomic Energy Commission which was initiated by Mr. Blackburn on the adjournment of the House of Commons on August 2 put into a more hopeful perspective the clash between the Hussian and the American proposals, if not entirely dispelling the pessimism engendered by the forthright rejection by the Russians of the Baruch plan for the control of atomic energy. With some reason the insistence by the U.S.S.R. on the unlimited rights of national sovereignty has been regarded as the first step towards the dissolution of the United Nations, and if in fact the Russian attitude is as uncompromising as it first appeared to be, that grim possibility must be faced. No scientific worker doubts that the relinquishing of some degree of national sovereignty is the price that must be paid as an alternative to a scientific armaments race embracing not merely atomic energy but also the equally grim potentialities of biological warfare.
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Conditions of Survival: the Moral Basis of Civilization. Nature 158, 425–427 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158425a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/158425a0