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TO promote an understanding of the aims of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society arranged a banquet in connexion with the National Chemical Exposition at which the theme was the role of the scientific worker in promoting world peace. Dr. W. A. Noyes, jun., in a broadcast address, emphasized that, for peaceful progress, we cannot rely on the control of specific weapons, atomic or otherwise, because weapons themselves are not the cause of war. He appealed to chemists, who must bear their full share of responsibility for enabling war to be made more and more awful, to give their best support to the subsidiary organisations, such as the Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, which are endeavouring to promote understanding between peoples and to make the world a better place in which to live. Dr. Noyes urged the importance of the objective of raising the level of scientific work throughout the world, and of eventually securing great scientific institutions in all countries. Indeed, his realistic address was in essence yet another plea for full freedom of scientific and cultural intercourse.
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Ethical Aspects of the Development of Atomic Energy. Nature 158, 889–891 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158889a0
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