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- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Momentum
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
From my earliest days I had a passion for science.
- Humanity
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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.
- Harmony
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I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.
- Need
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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.
- General
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Cold War
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Communism
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Cold War
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.
- Consequent
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Deterrence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence.
- Conduct
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- Nov 07, 2020
The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath.
- Nuclear Weapons
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- Nov 07, 2020