On April 5, 2009, President Obama stood on the world stage in Prague and admitted, "As the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act. When we fail to pursue peace, then it stays forever beyond our grasp. We know the path when we choose fear over hope. To denounce or shrug off a call for cooperation is an easy but also cowardly thing to do. That's how wars begin. That's where human progress ends. The voices of peace and progress must be raised together. Human destiny will be what we make of it. Words must mean something."
In 1987, from Ashkelon prison, Mordechai Vanunu wrote:
"The passive
acceptance and complacency with regard to the existence of nuclear weapons
anywhere on earth is the disease of society today"This struggle is not only a
legitimate one - it is a moral, inescapable struggle. No government, not even
the most democratic, can force us to live under this threat. No state in the
world can offer any kind of security against this menace of a nuclear
holocaust, or guarantee to prevent it.
"Already now there are enough nuclear missiles to destroy the world many
times over. This issue should unite us all, because that is our real enemy.
"Any
country, which manufactures and stocks nuclear weapons, is first of all
endangering its own citizens. This is why the citizens must confront their
government and warn it that it has no right to expose them to this danger.
"Because, in effect, the citizens are being held hostage by their own
government, just as if they have been hijacked and deprived of their freedom
and threatened.
"Indeed, when governments develop nuclear weapons without the consent of their citizens - and this is true in most cases - they are violating the basic rights of their citizens, the basic right not to live under constant threat of annihilation. Is any government qualified and authorized to produce such weapons."[IBID]
"All things must pass, all things must pass away. Sunset doesn't last all evening. A mind can blow those clouds away. Now the darkness only stays the nighttime; in the morning it will fade away. It's not always going to be this grey; all things must pass, all things must pass away."
1. http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/clear-and-present-danger-1.321772
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