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Joseph Rotblat: Leaving a Nuclear Legacy for Peace

Explore the Nobel laureate's decision to depart Los Alamos in 1944 and advocacy for a war-free world based on love and humanity, as detailed in his Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' article and Nobel Address in August 1985. Discover his vision for a better future and the importance of embracing humanity in the pursuit of global harmony and survival. Join the conversation about peace, kindness, and the essential role of love in shaping a better world.

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Joseph Rotblat: Leaving a Nuclear Legacy for Peace

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  1. A nuclear physicist responsible for helping design the atomic bomb tells for the first time why he decided to leave Los Alamos in 1944. Joseph Rotblat, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Aug 1985, p16.

  2. NOBEL ADDRESS We appeal, as human beings, to human beings:

  3. NOBEL ADDRESS We appeal, as human beings, to human beings: Remember your humanity and forget the rest.

  4. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death.

  5. The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than by compulsion; if in the process we learn to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task. Above all, remember your humanity

  6. Jo also showed Newton got it wrong!!!

  7. in “Café Einstein” in Berlin I am in front of me in front of Jo

  8. Sir Joseph Rotblat “Remember your humanity and forget the rest.”

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