“The deadly nuclear shadow will not vanish without public education, arousal and involvement. Politicians do not respond to the insistent beckoning of history. They rise to the challenge only when a powerful, public opinion perseveringly clamors for change.”

He was a giant in cardiology, and in health and humanitarian advocacy for the abolition of nuclear weapons and nuclear war.

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