BRACERS Record Detail for 121383
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Extract from a covering letter for C46.07 that BR wrote to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He reads the Bulletin "with interest and attention". The remainder of the letter is paraphrased. BR had submitted the article to five other American publications, which all refused it.
BR TO BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS, [c.AUG. 1946]
BRACERS 121383. PD. B&R Gg46.01
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“Mr. Russell in transmitting this manuscript wrote us an interesting note indicating that it had been refused by five American periodicals1 of wide circulation. (It has appeared in the English journal POLEMIC.) In offering it to the Bulletin — which he reads ‘with interest and attention’ — Mr. Russell trusted us to cut it if necessary without distorting his views. We publish the article in full….”
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manuscript … refused by five American periodicals The article was “The Atomic Bomb and the Prevention of War” (published in the Bulletin, 1 Oct. 1946; B&R C46.07; 68 in Collected Papers 24). It is not known what periodicals declined the article.
