The book is a dialogue between the two-time Nobel Prize winner American chemist Linus Pauling and the famous Japanese public figure, president of the international peacekeeping socio-religious organization Soka Gakkai International, winner of the 1985 UN Peace Prize Daisaku Ikeda. It was first published in 1992 in Japanese and English. The dialogue touches on a number of serious world problems, the main of which, having not lost its relevance to this day, is the problem of maintaining world peace and preventing threats to the very existence of human civilization in the era of the development of nuclear energy. The authors emphasize the need for full support of the UN, express faith in the possibility of a world without wars and hope that the younger generation, entering into active conscious activities, will be able to cope with the challenges of the 21st century.
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Poling N., Ikeda D. A Lifelong Quest for Peace. Dialogues. – M.: Moscow University Publishing House, 2004. – 144 p.
The book is a dialogue between the two-time Nobel Prize winner American chemist Linus Pauling and the famous Japanese public figure, president of the international peacekeeping socio-religious organization Soka Gakkai International, winner of the 1985 UN Peace Prize Daisaku Ikeda. It was first published in 1992 in Japanese and English. The dialogue touches on a number of serious world problems, the main of which, having not lost its relevance to this day, is the problem of maintaining world peace and preventing threats to the very existence of human civilization in the era of the development of nuclear energy. The authors emphasize the need for full support of the UN, express faith in the possibility of a world without wars and hope that the younger generation, entering into active conscious activities, will be able to cope with the challenges of the 21st century.
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Poling N., Ikeda D. A Lifelong Quest for Peace. Dialogues. – M.: Moscow University Publishing House, 2004. – 144 p.
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