Mar 22, 2018 - Sale 2470

Sale 2470 - Lot 83

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
"THE PROBLEM OF AVERTING . . . A NUCLEAR WORLD WAR STILL EXISTS" (SCIENTISTS.) PAULING, LINUS. Typed Letter Signed and Inscribed, "Best regards," to "Dear Dr. Land," inviting him to sign the enclosed statement urging the adoption of international agreements against the testing of nuclear weapons [present]. 1 page, 4to; faint uneven toning, staple holes at upper left, horizontal folds. Pasadena, CA, 6 November 1957

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". . . I wrote an appeal . . . to stop the testing of nuclear bombs, as a first step toward . . . the ultimate effective abolition of nuclear weapons . . . .
"The problem of averting the impending catastrophe of a nuclear world war still exists. . . ."
with--a printed petition entitled, "Appeal by American Scientists to the Governments and People of the World," headed by a statement urging a stop to the testing of nuclear weapons, lower half of page blank for signatures, unsigned. 14x8 inches; staple holes at upper left, horizontal folds.