What was the name of the 1955 manifesto on nuclear disarmament co-signed by Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell?

The 1955 manifesto on nuclear disarmament co-signed by Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell was the Russell-Einstein Manifesto.

Bertrand Russell largely drafted the statement during the Cold War, when the United States and Soviet Union were developing increasingly destructive nuclear weapons. Einstein signed it in the final days of his life; he died on 18 April 1955, before the manifesto was publicly released.

The document was issued in London on 9 July 1955 and warned that nuclear war threatened humanity as a whole, not merely individual cities or nations. It urged governments to settle international disputes peacefully and called for a conference of scientists to examine the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.

That proposed meeting eventually became the first Pugwash Conference, held in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, in 1957. “Atomic Bomb Manifesto” is a plausible-sounding distractor, but it is not the document’s accepted name.