TODAY. Forget Oppenheimer. The real nuclear hero is Joseph Rotblat

If only other scientists had followed his example.

If only scientists could learn from Joseph Rotblat, and abandon their dogmatic belief that science is “neutral”

To the end of his life, he believed scientists have personal responsibility for their inventions.

Yeah – you’ve never heard of him, have you? That’s because we have all been brainwashed, in the patriarchy, into believing that heroes are brave tough guys. Joseph Rotblat was brave, but, alas, not a tough guy. So – he don’t qualify.

Robert Oppenheimer might have regretted it later, but he was in favor of using the atomic bomb, seeing it as a terror weapon, that would need to be used only once

Leo Szilard was a “wimp” who did not want the atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima.

But Joseph Rotblat went further than Slizard. In 1943, when it was clear that Germany was not developing atomic weapons, Rotblat saw the danger of atomic warfare, and risk of a nuclear clash with Russia. Rotblat abandoned his role in the Manhattan Project, and left America. USA army intelligence tried hard to depict Rotblat as a Russian agent

After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Rotblat was determined to prevent the development of future nuclear weapons. He devoted the rest of his life to protesting nuclear testing and weapons production.

During the post-war period, Joseph Rotblat did an enormous amount of work in the cause of peace, dialogue and disarmament through the Pugwash movement, with which he shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995.

Joseph Rotblat passed away on August 31, 2005. To the end of his life, he believed scientists have personal responsibility for their inventions. Rotblat implored: “Above all, remember your humanity.”

August 3, 2023 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes, PERSONAL STORIES, weapons and war

3 Comments »

U may as urself. Y is trump still in the news.
Biden trumpstag team partne,r has done his job and ruined the economy. Biden has done its job, to setup ww3. The answer to mass homelessness incredible deprivation, in the west is fascism. Thats what is happening in the west. The crooked creepy politicians, like biden, albanese the german pm , have done their jobs now its time for the blood bath,

Comment by Seal | August 4, 2023 | Reply
Cold war hype is just a cover code, for more enforced austerity and civil society breakdown. That is so the owners can steal everthing that is left, from the middle class and below, in the west. Their goal is genocidal and their ultimate endpoint is fascist bloodbath. By that time ww3 will have already kicked into high gear. Most Reactors in the west, are well past their due dates. Aftertime the owners have done their dirty deeds, genocides and illfated world war, there will not be much left. Crazy nasty monkeys. “If we cant have it all we will destroy it all.”
Cannot escape it. It is inconcievable, that they continue to make these dna and chromosome destroying poisons. The world is flooded with the most genotoxic substances, in the universe. They are so smug that some of them are eugenecists. The nucleoapes, Could not conceive that their smug gonads, have traces of radionuclides in them. Radionuclides, that are mutating their sperm .
They cannot conceive, that through teratogenicity and genontoxicity many elements of their fragile genome are damaged in their chromosomes. That their chomosome structures have been weekened and damaged, from the mulltiplicity of racionuclides, that have gone through them and are still in them. They arein denial that they had radionuclide induced chromosome damage from the getgo. Damage from Radionuclides, emitting dna, breaking gamma alpha and beta rays 24 hours a day. 7 days a week. Imagine how much of the human genome is riddled and damaged in all human beings, from the spectrum of radionuclides in the environment now

i do not think, there is that much time left. It is inconcievable that they, continue to make these dna and chromosome destroying poisons. Dumn bstds

Comment by Jolly | August 4, 2023 | Reply
Three worst criminal politcians hitler, trump biden

Comment by Mar | August 5, 2023 | Reply