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A number of prominent physicists sit in desks in three rows and turn towards the camera during a meeting on the social and moral implications of the hydrogen nuclear bomb. Pictured are George B. Pegram, Samuel K. Allison, Bruno Benedetto Rossi, Hans A. Bethe, Kenneth T. Bainbridge, Charles C. Lauritsen, Victor Frederick Weisskopf, Francis Wheeler Loomis, Robert Bigham Brode, Milton G. White, and Frederick Seitz.

Original caption1: "Front - l to r - George B. Pegram, Samuel K. Allison, Bruno Rossi, Dr. Hans Bethe, Second row - l to r - Kenneth T. Bainbridge ?, Charles C. Lauritsen, Victor F. Weisskopf, F. Wheeler Loomis, Back row - l to r - Robert B. Brode, Milton G. White, Frederick Seitz", Original caption 2: on front "(NY10) NEW YORK, Feb. 4 -- PHYSICISTS DISCUSS H-BOMB AS "WORRIED CITIZENS" -- Top American physicists meet in a news conference here today as they warn solemnly that one hydrogen bomb can destroy New York or any other large city. They said using the H-bomb would betray morality and urged the U.S. to promise not to use it first. The siad they acted today as worried citizens. Front,

l to r - Geo. B. Pegram, Columbia U.; Samuel K. Allison, U. of Chicago; Bruno Rossi, Mass. Institute of Technology; and Dr. Hans Bethe, Cornell U. Second row - Kenneth T. Bainbridge, Harvard; Charles C. Lauritsen, Calif. Institute of Technology; Victor F. Weisskopf, M.I.T.; F. Wheeler Loomis, U. of Illinois. Back row - Robert B. Brode, U. of Calif.; Milton G. White, Princeton, and Frederick Seitz, U. of Illinois. (AP Wirephoto) (See wire story) (kch71505stf-hh)1950", stamped: "FEB 5 1950", Original credit line: stamped "Associated Press Wirephoto"