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Above all remember your humanity.
Joseph Rotblat / Physicist
Humanity
Remember
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I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.
Joseph Rotblat / Physicist
Harmony
Humanity
Saws
Saw
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From my earliest days I had a passion for science.
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Earliest
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The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence.
Joseph Rotblat / Physicist
Deterrence
Nuclear
Nuclear Deterrence
Philosophy
Basic
Present
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The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.
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War
Cold
Cold War
Thinking
War Cold War Cold
Over
Survives
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The cold war is over, but cold war thinking survives.
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War
Cold
Thinking
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But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.
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Nuclear
Stills
Weapons
Cling
Powers
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I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.
Joseph Rotblat / Physicist
Humanity
Remember
Responsibility
Appeal
Fellow
Scientists
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This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack.
Joseph Rotblat / Physicist
Function
Nuclear
Weapons
Attack
Deter
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My short-term vision is the abolition of nuclear weapons. My long-term vision is the abolition of war.
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War
Long
Vision
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My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.
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Citizens
Country
Lasting
World
Appeal
Establish
Fellow
Fellow Citizens
Lasting Peace
Third
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There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one.
Joseph Rotblat / Physicist
Direct
Evidence
Nuclear
Weapons
Caused
Nearly
World War
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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 / Physicist
Science
Avert
Danger
Effort
Half
Humanity
Imagine
Would Be
Life Science My Life
Created
Efforts
Mortal
Second
Spent
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The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath.
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Ethical
Guidelines
Oath
Scientist
Formulate
Voluntary
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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 / Physicist
War
Civilization
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Reality
Weapons
War Reality World
Destroys
Unlike
Previous
Trigger
World War
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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.
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Adopted
Assembly
Elimination
Firsts
Nations
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Resolution
United Nations
Weapons
General
Indeed
Unanimously
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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.
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Flesh
Nuclear
Scientist
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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 safer world, as I will show later.
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Contrary
Evidence
Nuclear
Weapons
On The Contrary
Safer
Sum
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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.
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Destruction
Human Species
Mean
Nuclear
Produce
Species
Weapons
Wholesale
Advances
Endangered
Further
Indeed
Likely
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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.
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Abhorrence
Arms
Arms Race
Long
Nuclear
Race
Strong
Strong Desire
Weapons
Widespread
Instinctive
Terrifying
Recognized
Rid
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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.
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War
Arms
Arms Race
Both Sides
Cold
Cold War
Decades
Heart
Iron
Iron Curtain
Maintaining
Momentum
Nuclear
Nuclear Arms
Race
Sides
Curtain
Scientists
Throughout
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Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them is dismantling about 2,000 nuclear warheads a year.
Joseph Rotblat / Physicist
Arsenal
Cold
Cold War
Nuclear
War Cold War End
Begun
Dismantling
War End Cold War
Main
Nuclear Warheads
Powers
Reductions
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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.
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Government
Arsenal
Atom Bomb
Cities
Decision
Enormous
Military
Nuclear
Atom
Basis
Bomb
Consequent
Governments
Japanese
Perceptions
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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.
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Assertion
Died
Millions
Needed
Nuclear
Weapons
Wars
Prevent
Refute
Tens
Tens Of Millions
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We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.
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Cases
Country
Essentials
National Security
Nuclear
Other Countries
Possession
Weapons
Essential
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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.
Joseph Rotblat / Physicist
Arms
Arms Race
Collapse
Communism
Disintegration
Nuclear
Race
Rationale
Soviet
Soviet Union
Tasks
Weapons
Chief
Utter
Disappeared
Union
Task
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The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble.
Joseph Rotblat / Physicist
War
Crisis
Cuban
Cuban Missile Crisis
Enough
Facts
October
Scary
Life War Me
All The Facts
Did
Were
Close
Learned
Missile
Moment
My Life
Terrifying
Recently
Tremble
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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, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.
Joseph Rotblat / Physicist
Men
Civilization
Development
First Time
Mean
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Reality
Weapons
Time History Man
Acquired
Destroy
Notice
Terrifying
Single Act
Technical
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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 / Physicist
Active
Average
Bombs
Fifteen
Hiroshima
Nuclear
Thousand
Weapons
Yield
Implemented
Nuclear Warheads
Reserve
Treaty
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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.
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Zero
Arsenal
Mutual
Nuclear
Reduction
Use
Weapons
Will Way Never
Be The First
Declare
Way Will Never
Gradual
Weapon
Nuclear Weapon
Recognize
Treaty
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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 / Physicist
Science
Technology
Achievement
Atom Bomb
Destruction
Discovery
General Public
Hiroshima
Hiroshima And Nagasaki
News
Science And Technology
Splendid
General
Atom
Became
Bomb
Public
Identified
Learned
Malign
Turned
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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 of humankind now needs protection. We have to extend our loyalty to the whole of the human race.
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Loyalty
Technology
Diversity
Race
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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 truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.
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Country
Insecure
Powerful
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My worry is that other advances in science may result in other means of mass destruction, maybe more readily available even than nuclear weapons. Genetic engineering is quite a possible area, because of these dreadful developments that are taking place there.
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Engineering
Mass Destruction
Mean
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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 to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.
Joseph Rotblat / Physicist
War
Abandon
Cold
Cold War
Elimination
Humankind
Long
Long Term
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Thinking
Threat
Weapons
Begin
Appeal
Bear
Fresh
Fresh Look
Towards
Pose
Powers
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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 truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.
Joseph Rotblat / Physicist
Deny
Disaster
Insecure
Most Powerful
Nuclear
Policy
Proliferation
Threatened
Weapons
Recipe
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Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Joseph Rotblat / Physicist
Legal
Ardent
Commitment
Disarmament
Nations
Nuclear
Nuclear Disarmament
Proliferation Treaty
United Nations
Entered
Expressed
Non-Proliferation
Official
Remind
Resolutions
Signed
Treaty
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Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons.
Joseph Rotblat / Physicist
Conventional
Disputes
Military
Nuclear
Senior
Statements
Weapons
Conflicts
Dealt
Personalities
Public Statements
Several
Studies
Testify
Threats
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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 on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.
Joseph Rotblat / Physicist
Conscious
Destiny
Mankind
Play
Powerful
Research
Results
Scientific Research
Life Time Science
Accordingly
Conduct
Life Science Time
Fully
Hinge
Incumbent
Plays
Scientific
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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 our common property, humankind, will require developing in each of us a new loyalty: a loyalty to mankind. It calls for the nurturing of a feeling of belonging to the human race. We have to become world citizens.
Joseph Rotblat / Physicist
Loyalty
Diversity
People
Race
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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 than by fear, by kindness rather than by compulsion; if in the process we learn to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task.
Joseph Rotblat / Physicist
Kindness
War
Beautiful
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