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Article: War no more?
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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"War is like love; it always finds a way."
Bertolt Brecht
As he accepted his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo earlier this month,
the 87-year-old Joseph Rotblat called upon the world to "to abolish
war altogether." He said, "The quest for a war-free world has a
basic purpose: survival."
Rotblat, a tireless and at times tiresome utopian, has never been
taken seriously in the corridors of power, which is precisely the
reason the Norwegian Parliament awarded him the world's most
prestigious prize.
War is older than recorded history and has always been with us.
Even in this fortunate country, hardly a generation has escaped war's
hard embrace. Yet as this bloodiest of centuries comes to a close, ...