“Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation … Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.”

— Bernard Baruch

Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (14 June 1946)

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American businessman 1870–1965

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