ABSTRACT

THIS PAPER WAS first published as “How to Avoid a Nuclear War”, Everybody’s Weekly, London, 21 Jan. 1956, pp. 9-11 (B&R C56.01a). The magazine’s slightly modified rendering of Russell’s title was preceded by a surtitle, “Bertrand Russell Challenges the Great Powers”, which was also used as the title for the reprint in The Times of India, 5 Feb. 1956, p. 8. Excerpts also appeared in a critical commentary on Russell’s piece by “Outspoken” in the Karachi journal New Era (“Bertrand Russell Challenges Great Powers” 10 March 1956, pp. 6, 10, 12), and the whole article had already been published in Spanish as “Bertrand Russell emplaza a las grandes potencias”, La Republica, Bogota, 12 Feb. 1956.