Message
by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz against the
Nuclear War
The use of nuclear weapons in a new war
would mean the end of humanity. This was candidly foreseen by scientist Albert
Einstein who was able to measure their destructive capability to generate
millions of degrees of heat, which would vaporize everything within a wide
radius of action. This brilliant researcher had promoted the development of
this weapon so that it would not become available to the genocidal
Nazi regime.
Each and every government in the world
has the obligation to respect the right to life of each and every nation and of
the totality of all the peoples on the planet.
Today there is an imminent risk of war
with the use of that kind of weapon and I don’t harbour the least doubt that an
attack by the
The World’s peoples have an obligation
to demand that their political leaders uphold their right to live. When the
life of humankind, of your people and your most beloved human beings run such a
risk, nobody can afford to be indifferent; not one minute can be lost in
demanding respect for that right; tomorrow will be too late.
Albert Einstein himself stated unmistakably:
“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV
will be fought with sticks and stones”. We fully comprehend what he wanted to
convey, and he was absolutely right, yet in the wake of a global nuclear war,
there wouldn’t be anybody around to make use of those sticks and stones.
There would be “collateral damage”, as
the American political and military leaders always affirm, to justify the
deaths of innocent people.
In a nuclear war the “collateral damage”
would be the life of all humanity.
Let us have the courage to proclaim that
all nuclear or conventional weapons, everything that is used to make war, must
disappear!
Fidel Castro Ruz
October 15, 2010