Joseph Rotblat Quotes

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• Technology is driving us together. In many ways we are becoming like one family. With the global threats resulting from science and technology, the whole…
• Whatever system of governance is eventually adopted, it is important that it carries the people with it. We need to convey the message that safeguarding…
• I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history,…
• This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.
• If the militarily most powerful and least threatened states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are…
• My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.
• Above all remember your humanity.
• The cold war is over, but cold war thinking survives.
• But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.
• We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security.…
• The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather…
• Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.
• Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to…
• But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the…
• I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by…
• I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.
• So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal…
• At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge…
• 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…
• The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis…

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