Joseph Rotblat

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 four decades of the Cold War. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

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But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

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From my earliest days I had a passion for science. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

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I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

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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 science. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

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I saw science as being in harmony with humanity. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

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Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

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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. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

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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. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

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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 the many wars that have taken place since 1945. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

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