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RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SCIENTISTS

Sir,

The scientist may well be reminded that his attitude as regards the atomic-energy-for-peace, if he recommends it, is at present most unscientific. His own established facts in this respect negate his attitude, and his hopes in future protective discoveries in the field of atomic energy are most illusive and may not be materialized either at all or in time. To push over therefore this mankind in the atomic hell in the hope of one day finding protection against the radiations, and cure for radiation sickness is just like causing someone to drink deadly potion in the hope of discovering someday some effective antidote. There could not be a wrong greater ever done to mankind. Who more than the scientist himself knows the tricky, sub-atomic and beyond man's reach nature of the subject of atomic energy. What expectations then he has in this respect in near future. It is the most friendly, most timely and most sincere counsel to those scientists who today counsel that the adoption of atomic-energy-for-peace in the present state of the subject is safe. If the scientists shun the possibility of one day being called the ugly monsters who dragged the world into the atomic hell, and being sought as the cruel murderers not only of mankind but all life on earth by the misery-ridden mankind in the atomic age, then let them pause and ponder over the problem. And if they find a shared of truth in our warning then let them not grudge condescension to a suppliant in the name of humanity. If, however, they will defy the warning, then men have in the past defied the warnings and have met their doom. There happens to be nothing anew in it. But the misfortune is that the doom of whole mankind is mingled with that of the scientist and the fate of this world now is staked on his serenity. The situation demands moral courage and fortitude on the part of him on whose head lies at present the responsibility of the entire world. If he defies this warning he simply defies it by defying the basic tenets and the express dictates of science itself whose mouthpiece and spokesman he happens to be in the world today.

Allama Muhammad Yousuf Gabriel
Adara Afqar e Gabriel QA Street Nawababad Wah Cantt Distt Rawalpindi
Pakistan