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Leonid Brezhnev

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Modern science and technology have reached a level where there is the grave danger that a weapon even more terrible than nuclear weapons may be developed. The reason and conscience of mankind dictate the need to erect an insuperable barrier barrier to the development of such a weapon.
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As quoted in Nuclear Disarmament (1979) by Aleksandr Efremovich Efremov

 
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