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A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat

Book by Joseph Rotblat · 3 quotes · Nuclear, Weapons, Nuclear Weapons

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A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat Quotes

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”