"One must not forget about these terrible events. For 50 years, the whole generation of people has grown up for whom nuclear bombings of Japanese cities are far in the past," Sergei Kapitsa told RIA Novosti.
In the scientist's opinion, for the new generation of politicians, businessmen, and public figures these events are too abstract.
"Actually, now this problem has aggravated very much - there have become more nuclear powers, all of them want to test their muscles, and the leading powers do not intend to give up such a powerful means either," Mr. Kapitsa believes.
At the same time, in the scientist's words, the prospects of nuclear weapons cuts are rather vague.
"I believe that the existing nuclear arsenals are more than redundant. The syndrome of nuclear might does not lead to anything else but huge funds spent and an unstable situation in the world; besides, no serious problem in the world can be resolved with the help of nuclear weapons," Mr. Kapitsa said.
In his turn, Russian Academy of Sciences Vice President, Nobel prize winner Zhores Alferov, believes that the situation in the field of nuclear disarmament will become more complicated.
"First of all, nuclear weapons cuts are a political decision. I speak for completely giving up nuclear weapons, but this will not happen, and, on the contrary, the situation with the nonproliferation will become more complicated," Zhores Alferov told RIA Novosti on Friday.
Russian Academy of Sciences member, Nobel prize winner Vitaly Ginzburg, stressed that it is absurd to protest against nuclear technologies.
"This technology is modern, a technology of the future, and it is absurd to object to it. But the use of nuclear technologies should becarried out at a proper level," Mr. Ginzburg said.
The academician compared nuclear technology opponents with the movement of Luddites in England during the early stages of industrial revolution, who spoke against the use of machines.
