Nuclear Weapons Quotes - Page 12

• Nuclear weapons can be dismantled, but they cannot be uninvented.

  Martin Rees

  Nuclear, Weapons

  Martin Rees (2009). “Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• The world should contemplate a nuclear weapons-armed Iran with the greatest of concern.

  Daniel Fried

  Iran, Nuclear, World

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• Iran is five to 10 years away from having a nuclear weapon. We have time to try diplomacy.

  Joseph Cirincione

  Iran, Years, Trying

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• So while there is no evidence at all that Iran has any significant quantity of nuclear material or any nuclear weapons, Iran is a much more difficult nuclear issue to resolve for the United States.

  Joseph Cirincione

  Iran, Issues, United States

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• The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Military, War, Race

  Speech at Strasbourg, 11 May 1979, in P. Ziegler 'Mountbatten' (1985) ch. 52

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Mountain, Nuclear

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• 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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Engineering, Design, Viruses

  "Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking". Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 16, 2001.

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• A.I. poses a potential threat more dangerous than nuclear weapons.

  Judy Woodruff

  Nuclear, Weapons, Dangerous

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  Donald Trump

  World, Weapons, Today

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.

  George W. Bush

  War, Israel, Iran

  "Sen. Lieberman Backs U.S. Action Against Iran". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 2, 2007.

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• Iran has the technology to produce the highly enriched uranium, which is not automatically meaning nuclear weapon.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Technology, Iran, Nuclear

  "Diplomatic License", www.cnn.com. May 16, 2004.

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• They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.

  Robert McNamara

  Mistake, Nuclear, Weapons

  "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara". Documentary, www.imdb.com. August 30, 2003.

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• Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.

  Marianne Williamson

  Generations, Nuclear, Weapons

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• North Korea. Not only does North Korean have nuclear weapons, but their leadership appears to not be rational.

  Ted Lieu

  Korea, Weapons, Doe

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• Iran is the greatest threat to stability in the Middle East. Iran remains the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, continues its efforts to develop nuclear weapons and has directly threatened the existence of Israel and the United States.

  James Inhofe

  Israel, Iran, Effort

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• My short-term vision is the abolition of nuclear weapons. My long-term vision is the abolition of war.

  Joseph Rotblat

  War, Long, Vision

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• The Americans have surrounded our country with military bases and threatened us with nuclear weapons, and now they will learn just what it feels like to have enemy missiles pointed at you; we'd be doing nothing more than giving them a little of their own medicine.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Country, Military, Medicine

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• It is a measure of the arrogance of nations - but especially of the nuclear-weapon states - to assert that a nuclear-weapons-free world is impossible when, in fact, ninety-five percent of the nations of the world already are nuclear free.

  George Lee Butler

  Arrogance, Nuclear, World

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• Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to American prestige. The United States might even touch off a worldwide armaments race.

  Albert Einstein

  Military, Loss, Race

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• When nuclear weapons were an elite club of five relatively sane world powers, the Left was convinced the planet was about to go ka-boom any minute, and the handful of us who survived would be walking in a nuclear winter wonderland. Now anyone with a few thousand bucks and an unlisted number in Islamabad in his Rolodex can get a nuke, and the Left couldn't care less.

  Mark Steyn

  Winter, Numbers, Wonderland

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• Nuclear weapons are to be worried about only when they're in the hands of Ronald Reagan - not so much when they're in the hands of a Third World anti-imperialist like Saddam Hussein. Can't you see?

  Jay Nordlinger

  Hands, Nuclear, World

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• Every nuclear bomb is an Auschwitz waiting to happen.

  Patricia Marx

  Waiting, Nuclear, Bombs

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• For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states undertook, which was to work towards disarmament and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, is something that manifestly serves our national security interests.

  Susan Rice

  Proliferation Treaty, Nuclear Disarmament, United States

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• The meeting [in San Antonio of the National Women's Political Caucus] featured a cattle show at which a herd of Democratic candidates- Glenn, Cranston, Mondale, Hart, and Hollings- pantingly pantomined their fidelity to feminism, stopping just short of a pledge to use nuclear weapons against any states that omit to ratify the Equal Right Amendment.

  Daniel Seligman

  Political, Feminism, Use

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• In England "The Day After," though unpopular with viewers, seems to have confirmed the average Englishman's mindless prejudice against Kansas. Shortly after the film portrayed that state being turned into an overused barbecue pit by nuclear weapons, support for British nuclear weapons rose a full percentage point.

  Emmett Tyrrell

  Average, Kansas, Rose

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