NUCLEAR WEAPONS

 

Nuclear weapons have the capacity to destroy all civilization. Yet they are being constructed by some of the world’s most skilled scientists. Should not their conscience halt them in their tracks? If not, should they not be controlled by an ethical code?

 

Here is the anti nuclear argument addressed to that special group of experts who provide humanity with the means to destroy itself.

 

The Code of Ethical Conduct the author has suggested in this book for nuclear scientists is adopted and reproduced in the Encyclopaedia of Social Inventions, London, as one of the 500 best ideas from around the world – for tackling social problems and improving the quality of life.



“It is a bold, imaginative, forceful and persuasive analysis that could provide the basis for normative debate on the whole relationship between citizen and society in the setting of nuclearism.”

 

Professor Richard Falk, Center of International Studies, Princeton University (on Nuclear Weapons and Scientific Responsibility)

If intellectual and legal reasoning were the sole criteria governing human behaviour, scientists would desert their weapons laboratories in droves after reading Weeramantry’s book- SANA Update