Joseph Rotblat Quotes

• 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.

  Joseph Rotblat

• I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.

  Joseph Rotblat

• 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.

  Joseph Rotblat

• 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.

  Joseph Rotblat

• I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.

  Joseph Rotblat

• From my earliest days I had a passion for science.

  Joseph Rotblat

• But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.

  Joseph Rotblat

• 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.

  Joseph Rotblat

• 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.

  Joseph Rotblat

• At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.

  Joseph Rotblat

• 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.

  Joseph Rotblat

• 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.

  Joseph Rotblat

Joseph Rotblat (32)

Birth:	4th November, 1908
Death:	31st August, 2005
Nationality:	British, Polish
Profession:	Physicist

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