The 32+ Joseph Rotblat Quotes

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.

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 Produce.

From My Earliest Days I Had A Passion For Science.

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 Soviet Union, Any Rationale For Having Nuclear Weapons Disappeared.

But The Nuclear Powers Still Cling Tenaciously To Their Weapons.

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 Of Political And Military Perceptions.

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 Get Rid Of Them.

All Nuclear Weapon States Should Now Recognize That This Is So, And Declare - In Treaty Form - That They Will Never Be The First To Use Nuclear Weapons. This Would Open The Way To The Gradual, Mutual Reduction Of Nuclear Arsenals, Down To Zero.

The Present Basic Philosophy Is Nuclear Deterrence.

Alice Stewart [is] A Much Underestimated Scientist Who Has Been An Indomitable Challenger Of The Establishment And A Thorn In The Flesh Of The Nuclear Industry.

Indeed, The Very First Resolution Of The General Assembly Of The United Nations - Adopted Unanimously - Called For The Elimination Of Nuclear Weapons.

My Third Appeal Is To My Fellow Citizens In All Countries: Help Us To Establish Lasting Peace In The World.