The video embedded above was submitted to us by WPSU/Penn State Public Broadcasting. In the video, Ambassador Richard Butler, former Australian Ambassador to the United Nations, Executive Chairman of the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), Chairman of the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, and currently distinguished scholar for international peace and security at Penn State School of International Affairs speaks about nuclear arms control and disarmament.
Below are some extracts:
“What exists today and is on high alert is 100'000 times stronger than Hiroshima!”
“We are at a critical point (...) where the possession of nuclear weapons is starting to expand. And I think that's truly serious.”
“They (nuclear weapons) are not just a bigger pop-gun. They are qualitatively different because of the radiation they produce and because of the extent of the damage they produce and because it takes years for any agricultural community to recover.”
“We know exactly what nuclear weapons are. We know how utterly devastating they are. How any use of them would be unconscionable, but we've continually stalled (...) in doing anything about it. And I think the time has come for us to stop that.”
“About 70% of people say it would be best if they disappeared. The same figure in Russia is about 65%.”
“We know exactly what we need to do to bring the nuclear horror under control. There's no lack of knowledge. What there has been, is a lack of political will.”
“As long as any country have nuclear weapons, others will seek to get them.”
“New arrangements have to made for the political management of this world, the world without nuclear weapons.”
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