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In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.

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Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.

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Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.

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Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol.

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Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

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What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world.

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The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.

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Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

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The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.

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Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Scientist

Born: January 23rd, 1929

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