He referred to the declaration that was signed by 9,235 scientists throughout the world and given to the Secretary General of the United Nations by Linus Pauling in January 1958. This, he stated, refutes the propaganda that scientists do not agree on the dangers of radiation. He appealed especially to women to raise their voices against the nuclear tests that cause deformed babies. He asked why international law and the United Nations have not done anything about this. He cited the Soviet tests in Siberia and the American tests at Bikini Atoll that contaminated the Pacific Ocean and Japan.
Mankind is imperiled by the tests.
Mankind insists that they stop, and has every right to do so. The second talk discussed the danger of an atomic war. Schweitzer recounted the first decade of the nuclear arms race and concluded that as a result of the arms buildup neither side could be victorious in an atomic war. Those who conduct an atomic war for freedom will die, or end their lives miserably. Instead of freedom they will find destruction.