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 RotblatAbout author
- Author's profession: Physicist
- Nationality: polish
- Born: November 4, 1908
- Died: August 31, 2005
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