A leading physicist in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II who later became an arms-control advocate. He was the founding chancellor of the University of California San Diego, serving from 1961 to 1964 and then from 1970 to 1972.
There is no such thing as a good nuclear weapons system. There is no way to achieve, in the sound sense, national security through nuclear weapons. (in a 1983 interview with the Los Angeles Times)
