• Email   • Print  The Case of Mordechai Vanunu  To the Editors:
Your readers may be interested in the enclosed appeal by twenty-
seven scientists on behalf of Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli
nuclear technician who, on March 27, was sentenced by a military
tribunal to eighteen years in prison for having made public
information about Israel’s nuclear capacity.  Rudolf Peierls
Oxford, England   The vast arsenal of nuclear weapons in the
world is a continuous threat to the survival of life on the
planet.  Over the years, many people of conscience have sought
to arouse world opinion to the grave danger posed to humanity by
expanding nuclear weapons systems and their introduction to new
arenas of conflict.  As early as 1946, Albert Einstein appealed
to humanity to place ahead of every consideration the moral
imperative of active opposition to the imminent prospect of
annihilation presented by the stock piling of nuclear weapons,
their delivery systems and the willingness of governments to
threaten their use.  Hence