Nuclear Weapon Quotes
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It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
If the militarily most powerful and least threatened states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
A nuclear weapon of some dimension, whether it’s actually a nuclear weapon, or a dirty bomb, or some kind of radiological device. Yes, I think it’s probably a near thing (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that’s been fed to them (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
The gravest threat faced by the world is of an extremist group getting hold of nuclear weapons or materials (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
I see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential to make life unlivable on this planet (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
We cannot by ourselves reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, but we are doing what has to be done all over the world if those weapons are one day to be eliminated. We will not contemplate any circumstance in which their possession or threatened use is justified. We reject the secrecy and hypocrisy which surrounds the continuing refinement of the technology (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
If we are to achieve a world free from nuclear weapons, we need the involvement of young people. Youth have energy, enthusiasm and many good ideas to share. Most importantly, however, it is young people who will be inheriting the problems which have been left to them by the generations past (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
You can guarantee that mining uranium will lead to nuclear waste. You can’t guarantee that uranium mining will not lead to nuclear weapons (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
Is e=mc2 a sexed equation? Perhaps it is. Let us make the hypothesis that it is insofar as it privileges the speed of light over other speeds that are vitally necessary to us. What seems to me to indicate the possible sexed nature of the equation is not directly its uses by nuclear weapons, rather it is having privileged what goes the fastest (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would be destroyed (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
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 (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
There’s a very simple reason for focusing on the nuclear issue. Many, many issues are of supreme importance in one way or another, but if we blow ourselves up with nuclear weapons, no other issue is really going to matter. Quite possibly there would be no other human beings left to be concerned about anything else (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
Nuclear weapons elimination will make all states and their people safer. It is time to assert our right to live in a nuclear weapons free world (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
We must work toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons, and an end to policies which cause this country to move toward the weaponization of space (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
Extending social and economic development throughout the world and eliminating nuclear weapons from military arsenals are two fundamental prerequisites to replacing the culture of war with a culture of peace, and building true security for all the world’s people (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
Our nuclear free status means that we decline to acquiesce in the strategies of nuclear deterrence. We will not turn a blind eye to them, and pretend that the weapons are no longer a threat. We will not in any way tolerate the testing of nuclear weapons, or their manufacture, or their deployment (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? Some may think so. But as human beings, citizens of nations with power to influence events in the world, can we be at peace with ourselves if we strive for less? I think not (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
I have sacrificed my freedom and risked my life in order to expose the danger of nuclear weapons which threatens this whole region. I acted on behalf of all citizens and all of humanity (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)