When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some 15,000 nuclear warheads, active and in reserve. Fifteen thousand weapons with an average yield of 20 Hiroshima bombs. — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction. — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one. — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization. — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
Alice Stewart [is] a much underestimated scientist who has been an indomitable challenger of the establishment and a thorn in the flesh of the… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
If the militarily most powerful and least threatened states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
Technology is driving us together. In many ways we are becoming like one family. With the global threats resulting from science and technology, the… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
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