Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm or to hinder life is evil.
100 Jahre Lambarene
Wir feiern die Ankunft von Albert und Helene Schweitzer in Lambarene am 16. April 2013
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A new disarmament commission of the UNO began in March 1962 to prepare for an atomic test ban treaty. President Kennedy said in a speech on the 10th June 1963, that the USA would stop all nuclear tests, and that the prime minister Krustchev had agreed to intensify negotiations for a test-ban treaty. The negotiations began on the 15th July in Moscow and ended on 25. July with the test-ban treaty. It banned al nuclear tests in the atmosphere and under water with the exception of underground tests. The treaty was signed the 5th August in Moscow and was effective from the 10th October 1963. Regarding this success Schweitzer wrote to president John F. Kennedy: "I am writing to congratulate you and to thank you for having had the foresight and the courage to inaugurate a world policy toward peace. Finally a ray of light appears in the darkness in which humanity was seeking its way and gives us the hope that the darkness will make way for light. The treaty between the East and the West to renounce nuclear tests in the atmosphere and underwater is one of the greatest events, perhaps the greatest, in the history of the world. It gives us the hope that war with atomic weapons between East and West can be avoided. When hearing of the Moscow treaty I thought of my friend, Einstein, with whom I joined in the fight against atomic weapons. He died in Princeton in despair. And I, thanks to your foresight and courage, am able to observe that the world has taken the first step on the road to peace. Please accept, Mr. President, the assurance of my highest consideration. Devotedly Albert Schweitzer." In December 1964 Albert Schweitzer recorded a speech, "My words to mankind", on a disk. He summed up his life and his " Reverence for Life ". At the same time he renewed his appeals from Oslo against the arms race and nuclear weapons. Up to the death of Albert Schweitzer at the end of 1965 there were a total of 646 nuclear tests by five states: 403 by the USA, 200 by the USSR, 25 by Great Britain, 16 by France and 2 by China. Up to the end of 1986, 1662 atomic explosions were recorded around the world by six states (including India). |
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