Joseph Rotblat Quotes

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.

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.

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.