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Weapons Quotes by Joseph Rotblat
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look.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…
- All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first…
- The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the…
- As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in…
- Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to…
- Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states…
- There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one.
- This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack.
- To sum up, there is no evidence that a world without nuclear weapons would be a dangerous world. On the contrary, it would be a…
- When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some 15,000…
- VThere is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one.
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