Scientists Warn of Nuclear Disaster

Thirteen of the nation’s most prominent physicists have written a letter to President Bush, calling reported U.S. plans to use nuclear weapons against Iran “gravely irresponsible” and warning that such action would have “disastrous consequences for the security of the United States and the world.”

The physicists include five Nobel laureates, a recipient of the National Medal of Science and three past presidents of the American Physical Society, the nation’s preeminent professional society for physicists. MORE HERE.

This is in addition to a petition signed by more than 1,800 physicists, including seven Nobel laureates, to oppose the United States using nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states. The letter and this petition were begun by two University of California physicists, because it was physicists who made possible the first atomic bomb 61 years ago this summer.