Nuclear Weapons Quotes - Page 15

• Nobody wants any country to have nuclear weapons.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Country, Nuclear, Want

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• I feel relieved that we discovered that Iraq did not have nuclear weapons.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Iraq, Nuclear, Weapons

  "Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer, edition.cnn.com. October 28, 2007.

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• The Cold War philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which prevented the former Soviet Union and the United States from using the nuclear weapons they had targeted at each other, would not apply to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran. For him (Ahmadinejad), Mutual Assured Destruction is not a deterrent, it is an inducement.

  Bernard Lewis

  Philosophy, War, Iran

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• After months of negotiations, Iran has finally agreed to reduce its nuclear weapons program. Which was great until Putin showed up and said, 'Hi, I'm here about Craigslist ad for nukes.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Iran, Nuclear, Weapons

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• Iran said it will give up trying to make a nuclear weapon. But it got awkward when Iran said, 'But just for Lent. We'll start again on Monday.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Monday, Giving Up, Iran

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• Teller contended, not implausibly, that hydrogen bombs keep the peace, or at least prevent thermonuclear war, because the consequences of warfare between nuclear powers are now too dangerous. We haven't had a nuclear war yet, have we? But all such arguments assume that the nuclear-armed nations are and always will be, without exception, rational actors, and that bouts of anger and revenge and madness will never overtake their leaders (or military and secret police officers in charge of nuclear weapons). In the century of Hitler and Stalin, this seems ingenuous.

  Carl Sagan

  Revenge, Military, War

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• The North Korean regime remains one of the world's leading proliferator of missile technology, including transfers to Iran and Syria. The transfer of nuclear weapons or material by North Korea to states or non-state entities would be considered a grave threat to the United States, and we would hold North Korea fully accountable of the consequences of such action.

  George W. Bush

  Technology, Iran, Korea

  President Bush's Statement on North Korea Nuclear Test, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 9, 2006.

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• President Nixon in his inaugural address indicated that he wanted an era of negotiation. Our reasoning was that whatever our ideological differences, whatever our geopolitical differences, we were condemned to coexistence by nuclear weapons.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Differences, President, Nuclear

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• With respect to the relationship between nuclear weapons and the advent of détente, one has to consider two things. One, the nature of nuclear weapons in themselves, and secondly, the advent of nuclear parity.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Two, Nuclear, Weapons

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• The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Achievement, Political, Nuclear

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• Iran won't pursue nuclear weapons because 'it's contrary to their faith.'

  Barack Obama

  Iran, Weapons, Nuclear

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• It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  War, Law, Peaceful

  Clare Boothe Luce (1941). “European spring”

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• If you start getting instability in large powers with nuclear weapons, that's not a good day.

  David Titley

  Good Day, Nuclear, Weapons

  "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.

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• Despite official drivel about clean bombs and tactical nuclear weapons, anyone who can read a newspaper or listen to a radio knows that some of us mortals have the power to destroy the human race and man's home on earth. We need not even make war; only by preparing, by playing with our new weapons, we poison the air, the water, the soil of our plants, damage the health of the living, and weaken the chances of the newborn.

  Martha Gellhorn

  War, Home, Men

  Martha Gellhorn (1959). “The Face of War”

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• One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep going. More and more television sets. More and more cars. More and more steel, and more and more pollution. We don't question whether we need any more or what we'll do with them. We just have to keep on making more and more if we are to keep going. Sooner or later it's going to collapse. ... Look what we have done already with the principle of more and more when it comes to nuclear weapons.

  Dora Russell

  Car, Principles, Needs

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• As long as nuclear weapons exist, there is a risk that they will be used. And the consequences of their use would be catastrophic. This realization has led to increased engagement, not least through the humanitarian initiative. We must now use this broad engagement to garner support and to push for real results in the disarmament field.

  Margot Wallstrom

  Real, Long, Support

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• The aggressor too should know that the preemptive use of nuclear weapons would not insure victory. With modern detection systems and the combat readiness of the Soviet Union's strategic nuclear forces, the United States would not be able to deal a crippling blow to the socialist countries. The aggressor will not be able to evade an all-crushing retaliatory strike.

  Dmitriy Ustinov

  Crush, Country, Blow

  "Physics and Nuclear Arms Today" by David Hafemeister, (p. 94), 1991.

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• Presidents should be very careful at all times in discussing the use or non-use of nuclear weapons. Presidents since the cold war have used nuclear deterrence to keep the peace, and I don't believe that any president should make any blanket statements with respect to the use or non-use of nuclear weapons.

  Hillary Clinton

  War, Believe, President

  "Clinton, Gates, Schumer, and Kyl". "This Week", www.realclearpolitics.com. August 2, 2007.

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• USA belongs to a handful of men who also control the media. Look at General Electric. It produces nuclear weapons for the Pentagon and also owns the NBC News cable channel, which is a very sophisticated censure apparatus, intrinsic to the system. It's genius. It's like an electronic cage around the nation which blocks information from getting through.

  Gore Vidal

  Block, Men, Nbc News

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• Terrorists do not actually need nuclear weapons. They have been conveniently supplied with 103 nuclear power plants scattered throughout the United States (438 of these deadly facilities exist throughout the world). A planned meltdown at one of these facilities would make the World Trade Center attacks seem like child's play. The massive concrete containers protecting the reactors are not strong enough to withstand the impact of a jumbo jet.

  Helen Caldicott

  Strong, Children, War

  Helen Caldicott (2013). “The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex”, p.12, The New Press

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• As a physician, I see the earth as a patient in the intensive care unit. We have an acute clinical crisis on our hands and must take urgent action. My prescription for survival is that the American people rise up as they did in the 1980s, when 80 percent of Americans supported the nuclear weapons freeze.

  Helen Caldicott

  Hands, People, Survival

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• 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.

  Helen Caldicott

  War, Would Be, Generations

  Helen Caldicott (1980). “Nuclear madness: what you can do”

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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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• Every nuclear bomb is an Auschwitz waiting to happen.

  Patricia Marx

  Waiting, Nuclear, Bombs

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