The month Mandela left prison , S. Africa 's president ordered its atomic arsenal dismantled . Tutu says nuclear weapons -- like apartheid -- were a blight on South Africa 's image . As president , Tutu implored the remaining nuclear powers to also give up their weapons . All of humanity would be better off , he reasoned , if we lived free from the threat of a nuclear conflagration , the effects of which would be catastrophic . Mandela says nuclear weapons and those who hold them should be stigmatized .
The month Mandela left prison , S. Africa 's president ordered its atomic arsenal dismantled . Tutu says nuclear weapons -- like apartheid -- were a blight on South Africa 's image . As president , Tutu implored the remaining nuclear powers to also give up their weapons . Mandela says nuclear weapons and those who hold them should be stigmatized .