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.

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.

This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack.

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

There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one.