Swedish Foreign Minister (1978—79); Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, UKAEA (1981—1997); Head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission-UNMOVIC (2000—June 2003)
‘I think that the issue of
nuclear proliferation is the gravest threat that the world faces, much more important even than climate change, than financial meltdown, than international terrorism...’
James Arbuthnot
speaking to TalkWorks
in November 2010
‘The fact that the United States has produced four extremely senior and knowledgeable statesman, and Europe has produced a number of approaches from very senior people, encourages us to think that a world free of nuclear weapons could be made possible’
JEREMY GREENSTOCK
speaking to TalkWorks
in March 2011
‘ ....the resistance on the conservative US side against disarmament was a shock to the world, and I think that we have been at an intermission ever since, and it’s a very dismaying situation we are in now...’
Hans Blix
speaking to TalkWorks
in December 2011