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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 16. Juli 2005 / Time Line July 16, 2005
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Første
amerikanske
kernevåbenforsøg, Trinity, i
Alamogordo-ørkenen, i New Mexico, 1945.
/ First American nuclear test, Trinity, in the Alamogordo Desert in
New Mexico, 1945.
/ Premier essai nucléaire américain, la
Trinité, dans le désert Alamogordo au
Nouveau-Mexique, 1945.
/ Primera prueba nuclear estadounidense, Trinity, en el desierto de
Alamogordo, en Nuevo México, 1945.
/ Erste amerikanische Kernwaffenversuch, Trinity, in dem
Alamogordo-Wüste in New Mexico, 1945.
Literature: Message to the Inheritors of the Manhattan
Project from Professor Sir Joseph Rotblat FRS to the inheritors of
the Manhattan project on the 60th anniversary of the Trinity atomic
test in New Mexico on 16 July 1945.
- http://www.atomicmirror.org/rotbaltmessage.htm
Link er i skrivende stund forældet.
07/16/2005
On 6 July 2005, the Atomic Mirror wrote a letter to Professor
Joseph Rotblat, the only nuclear scientist to walk away from the
Manhattan Project, asking if he would like to send a message back
to Los Alamos for the 16 July remembrance of the birth of the
nuclear age. He graciously responded with the following
message....
MESSAGE FROM PROFESSOR SIR JOSEPH ROTBLAT
(1995 NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE AND FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY)
TO THE INHERITORS OF THE MANHATTAN PROJECT
on the 60th anniversary of the Trinity atomic test in New Mexico on
16 July 1945
In national research laboratories, such as Los Alamos or Livermore
in the USA, Chelyabinsk or Arzamas in Russia, and Aldermaston in
the UK, many thousands of scientists are employed doing pure and
applied research for specific purposes, cloaked in secrecy,
purposes that I see as the negation of scientific pursuit: the
development of new, or the improvement of old weapons of mass
destruction. Among these thousands there may be some scientists who
are motivated by considerations of national security. The vast
majority, however, have no such motivation; in the past they were
lured into this work by the siren call of rapid advancement and
unlimited opportunity. What is going on in these laboratories is
not only a terrible waste of scientific endeavour but a perversion
of the noble calling of science.
The Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe, who was a most distinguished
physicist, and one-time leader of the Manhattan Project, said:
Today we are rightly in an era of disarmament and dismantlement of
nuclear weapons. But in some countries nuclear weapons development
still continues. Whether and when the various Nations of the World
can agree to stop this is uncertain. But individual scientists can
still influence this process by withholding their skills.
Accordingly , 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.
I would like to see an endorsement of this call by the scientific
community. I will go further and suggest that the scientific
community should demand the elimination of nuclear weapons and, in
the first instance, request that the nuclear powers honour their
obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Let me, in conclusion, remind you that the basic human value is
life itself; the most important of human rights is the right to
live. It is the duty of scientists to see to it that, through their
work, life will not be put into peril, but will be made safe and
its quality enhanced.
Joseph Rotblat
12 July 2005
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