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“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.”

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

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“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.”

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