Joseph Rotblat | "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."

"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, Polish Physicist

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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."

"Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait."

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"My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets."

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Personal Development

"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."

Author Name

Personal Development

"My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world."

Peace

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

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."

Communism

"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."

Life

"This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization."

War

"The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence."

Philosophy

"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."

Legal

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

First

"I saw science as being in harmony with humanity."

Science

"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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"Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait."

Author Name

Personal Development

"My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets."

Author Name

Personal Development

"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."

Author Name

Personal Development

More

"My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world."

Peace

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

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."

Communism

"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."

Life

"This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization."

War

"The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence."

Philosophy

"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."

Legal

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

First

"I saw science as being in harmony with humanity."

Science

"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."

Abhorrence