Oscar Arias Quotes
Nuclear arms kill many people all at once, but other weapons kill many people, little by little, every day, everywhere in the world.
Arias Sánchez, Óscar. "The Arms Trade Treaty: A Call to Action." United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty, New York, 2012.
The Armenian-Turkish enmity was vicious to the point that each people tried to kill and exterminate the other—men women and children. The atrocities committed by the Armenians were unfortunately matched by the Turks in what is now referred to as the “Armenian Genocide”—see {51838} The armed combatants amongst Turks and Armenians were in the minority yet each side slaughtered all members of the other whenever they could. The hatred still prevails – see {588211}. And Turks and Armenians both still accuse the other of atrocities of the period and appear in denial about their own violence.
The Japanese had developed and tested a very sophisticated set of biologial weapons on the Chinses mirdering many However, there was great disagreement within the Japaanese Sureme War Counci as to whether or not to use the biologica weapons against the US and the allies. There were two fears. One that the U. S, also had biologica weapons and with their control over the skies of the densley populated Japan could easily retaliate and do much ore damage to Japn. The second was that letting pathogns lose might not be controllable and deadly disease could spread around the entire world as with the Back Plgue. Umezu opposed the use. This may have saved his life when he was convicted of other war crimes, he was not executed and received a life sentence.
The atomic bomb had just been used the year before. However, in the next decades, nuclear weapons were not used again as those nations with nuclear capability also had potential enemies with nuclear weapons. The fear of Mutually Assured Destruction prevented nuclear weapons from being used for a long time.
Some think that for Europe, Nuclear Weapons performed this function.
Óscar Arias Sánchez is a Costa Rican activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He was President of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2010. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end the Central American crisis. He was also a recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism and a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security. In 2003, he was elected to the board of directors of the International Criminal Court's Trust Fund for Victims.
