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dated May 10, 1957: Attlee's warning

Lord Attlee, former Labour Prime Minister of Britain, has said that a number of countries carrying on their own experiments with hydrogen bombs "may obviously lead to great danger to the human race." Speaking in the debate on defence in the House of Lords on May 8, he said: "We have arrived at the stage in which you have either got to have some agreement with regard to disarmament or face the prospect of the destruction of our civilisation. I do not think there is really much place for civil defence if there is a hydrogen-bomb warfare. There is now full recognition that there is no defence whatever against the hydrogen-bomb. If you want to get anything like defence or security it must be collective. That means there must be the fullest cooperation with the democracies. I do not think we have got it yet."

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