Nuclear Weapon Quotes
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... nuclear threats and nuclear weapons are the last argument of weak, stressed and irresponsible politicians. People must act very quicky to stop the movement to nuclear war (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
All nations that have nuclear weapons think that they are responsible and it is the other guys who are irresponsible (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
A convention on the comprehensive ban of nuclear weapons should be negotiated. Since biological and chemical weapons have been prohibited, there is no reason why nuclear weapons, which are more destructive, should not be comprehensively banned and thoroughly destroyed. All it takes to reach this objective is strong political will (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
I still believe that any country understands that if they use nuclear weapons, they will be wiped out of existence. They could be irrational in many ways, but I don’t think they’re irrational to the point that they’re ready to annihilate their own country (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
The danger of terrorists and rogue states is compounded by the proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
They say that faith can move mountains, so can bulldozers, so can nuclear weapons. I’m not really sure if that’s what faith is intended for. I guess if there is a mountain that has to be moved, and you’ve got nothing else to do it with, you could probably do it with faith (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
Nuclear weapons need large facilities, but genetic engineering can be done in a small lab. You can’t regulate every lab in the world. The danger is that either by accident or design, we create a virus that destroys us (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
The biggest problem that the world has is nuclear weapons. Global warming is not our big problem. Our big problem is the maniacs that are controlling weaponry that has never been like it is today (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
Lawyers are like nuclear weapons. By all rights they shouldn’t exist, but if some people have them, then you’d better have one, too, just in case (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
Iran has the technology to produce the highly enriched uranium, which is not automatically meaning nuclear weapon (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
The massive quantities of radiation that would be released in a war fought with nuclear weapons might, over time, cause such great changes in the human gene pool that following generations might not be recognizable as human beings (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
They’ll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you’re going to destroy nations (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
Iran will for sure have pledged to the international community that it will not develop a nuclear weapon, and now will be subject to an additional protocol, a more vigorous inspection and monitoring regime that lasts in perpetuity (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
I’m absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities... there’s a high probability of such an attempt (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
They assert that their program is purely peaceful... We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. The only value in our two nations possessing nuclear weapons is to make sure they will never be used. But then would it not be better to do away with them entirely? (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
It used to be you needed to have a very large sophisticated state before you could even have a nuclear weapon... Now the technology is widespread enough. It doesn’t take very many people to be able to cobble together a devastating attack, and all it takes is one (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves, either through nuclear weapons or through environmental degradation, and we allow the life chances of hundreds of millions of people to be destroyed because we haven’t found the will to tackle it (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
The challenge of preventing any further proliferation of nuclear weapons is just such a trial in the quest for world peace, one that cannot be achieved if we are defeated by a sense of helplessness. The crucial element is to ensure that any struggle against evil is rooted firmly in a consciousness of the unity of the human family, something only gained through the mastery of our own inner contradictions (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)
My central arms control objective has been to reduce substantially and ultimately to eliminate nuclear weapons and rid the world of the nuclear threat. The prevention of the spread of nuclear explosives is to additional countries is an indispensable part of our efforts to meet this objective. I intend to continue my pursuit of this goal with untiring determination and a profound sense of personal commitment (Nuclear Weapon Quotes)