Stockholm Appeal

The Stockholm Appeal was an initiative launched by the World Peace Council on 19 March 1950 to promote nuclear disarmament and prevent atomic war.

On 15 March 1950,[1] the World Peace Council approved the Stockholm Appeal, calling for an absolute ban on nuclear weapons.

About two weeks after the start of the Korean War, the initiative's first publication called Peacegram claimed that the appeal has already earned 1.5 million signatories.

[2] The total gathered petitions were allegedly signed by 273,470,566 persons (including the entire adult population of the Soviet Union).

[3] The text of the appeal read: We demand the outlawing of atomic weapons as instruments of intimidation and mass murder of peoples.