"I call on all scientists in all countries to cease and desist from work creating, developing, improving and manufacturing further nuclear weapons - and, for that matter, other weapons of potential mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons."

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Source : Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Journal, 51:6, 3, November, 1995.

Hans Bethe

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