Who initiated the Stockholm Appeal, and was the husband of Irène Joliot-Curie?
Stockholm Appeal On March 15, 1950, the World Peace Council approved the Stockholm Appeal, calling for an absolute ban on nuclear weapons. The appeal was initiated by the French Communist physicist Frédéric Joliot-Curie, gathered petitions allegedly signed by 273,470,566 persons (including the entire adult population of the U.S.S.R.)
Marie Depage Marie Pauline Depage (23 September 1872 – 7 May 1915) was a Belgian nurse, and wife of Dr Antoine Depage. She was killed in the sinking of the RMS "Lusitania", and she is commemorated in Belgium alongside the British nurse Edith Cavell