The experience of Covid-19 shows how easily catastrophe can befall our species | Raghu Karnad

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A previous generation understood the destructive power of humanity, says journalist Raghu Karnad

by 10 atomic scientists, nearly all Nobel Laureates, and Einstein – addressed itself to “members of the species Man, whose continued existence is in doubt”. They made a simple argument with a radical conclusion. Having learned to weaponise nuclear power, we could never unlearn it; disarmament might succeed, but we could not un-invent the bomb. Our command of science simply couldn’t coexist with a tendency to make war without – eventually, inevitably – wiping out our species.

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