Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.
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I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.
My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
These nuclear plants are more dangerous than people realize.
There are some people that will be deterred by the fact that we have nuclear weapons... But those people are the folks we can deal with anyway.
In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.
Nuclear accidents anywhere can affect people everywhere.
It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was astounded in Hiroshima to find that nobody had really studied it.
Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but don't rise to the level of nuclear.
I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.
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