Hans Blix Military Quotes

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• Negotiations with Iran, especially, will not be easy under any circumstances, but I suspect that they might be somewhat less difficult if the nuclear-weapon states could show that their requests are part of a broader effort to lead the world, including themselves, toward nuclear disarmament. Preventing further proliferation is essential, but it is not a recipe for success to preach to the rest of the world to stay away from the very weapons that nuclear states claim are indispensable to their own security.

  Hans Blix

  Military, Iran, Nuclear Disarmament

• What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

  Hans Blix

  Military, People, Biological Warfare

• For some twenty years the window that opened at the end of the Cold War has been allowed to hang flapping in the wind. It is high time that the five nuclear-weapon states take seriously their commitment to negotiate toward nuclear disarmament.

  Hans Blix

  Military, War, Commitment

  Hans Blix (2008). “Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters”, p.37, MIT Press

• I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

  Hans Blix

  Zero, Military, Peculiar

  "Iraq Invasion Violated International Law: Blix". www.smh.com.au. August 07, 2003.

• To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war...I'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict.

  Hans Blix

  Military, War, Climate

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