The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared.
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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
Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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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.
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for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms.
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My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.
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This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.
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