Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July 10, 2023
Posted: 10th July 2023
July 10, 2023
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“What we’ve seen from places like Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the many nuke test sites around the world is that people develop cancers, leukemia, different diseases long, long after the nuclear bomb. So even if you survive, by sheer luck, the initial bomb, you’ll still live your whole life in fear of dying from the consequences afterwards.”
— Beatrice Fihn, former executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, “Working to eliminate nuclear weapons with Beatrice Fihn,” Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
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