It is feared that if many H-bombs are used there will be universal death, sudden only for a minority, but for the majority a slow torture of disease and disintegration.

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A source trail connects this quotation to Albert Einstein and Russell–Einstein Manifesto (1955), but the exact English wording has not been confirmed in a primary text. The attribution is therefore probable rather than definitive.

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