Nuclear Weapons Quotes - Page 16

• The Obama administration announced a deal with Iran that would prevent the Iranians from making a nuclear weapon. In exchange, we're giving the Iranians Netflix.

  Conan O'Brien

  Iran, Giving, Netflix

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• We have a historic opportunity to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in Iran, and to do so peacefully, with the international community firmly behind us. We should seize that chance.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Iran, Community

  Statement by the President on the Framework to Prevent Iran from Obtaining a Nuclear Weapon, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 2, 2015.

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• Five million Jews are regarding me as a traitor, but six billion people around the world think me as a hero and a good man who bring the message to all the human beings that we should survive and prevent the use of nuclear weapons and to prevent the nuclear preparations and to prevent nuclear war in the future.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  War, Hero, Men

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• Over the last years we've seen the consequences of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy. Leading from behind is a disaster. We have abandoned and alienated our friends and allies, and our enemies are stronger. Radical Islam is on the rise, Iran's on the verge of acquiring a nuclear weapon, China is waging cyber warfare against America.

  Ted Cruz

  America, Iran, Years

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• It is hard to put a price on some things. What is the value of having prevented nuclear weapons from getting into the hands of a dictator like Saddam Hussein - or of Gadhafi?

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Hands, Nuclear, Hussein

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment.

  Newt Gingrich

  Real, Thinking, Cities

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. December 17, 2006.

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• I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Mean, Reality, Men

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.134, I.B.Tauris

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• 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.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  Order, Humanity, Nuclear

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• If you took every nuclear weapon ever built at the height of the Cold War, lumped them together and blew them up at the same time, that would be one one-millionth of the energy released at that moment.

  Phil Plait

  Motivation, War, Inspiration

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• Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Bombers, Nuclear, Weapons

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• 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.

  Michael Scheuer

  Dirty, Thinking, Nuclear

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• We are one with God and He loves us. Now if that isn't a hazard to this country-How're we gonna keep building nuclear weapons?

  Bill Hicks

  Country, Hazards, Nuclear

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• It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union, who managed the Cold War with meticulous care in retrospect. Imagine the European diplomats of 1914 or 1938 armed with nuclear weapons. It is easy to believe they would not have been as cautious.

  George Friedman

  War, Believe, Two

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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

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• If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all costs'. what is the point of having one?

  Enoch Powell

  Nuclear, Cost, Use

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• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  Abdul Kalam

  Nuclear, Weapons, Today

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• Nuclear weaponry, of course, would be the be-all, end-all of just too many people in too many parts of our planet.

  Sarah Palin

  People, Would Be, Nuclear

  Palin, Biden debate, edition.cnn.com. October 3, 2008.

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• North Korea announced that they have nuclear weapons and they have no plans to give them up. The White House, acting quickly, announced their plan to invade Iran.

  Craig Ferguson

  Iran, Korea, White

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• In spite of nuclear weapons, large numbers of American citizens feel totally insecure. And in spite of so much wealth, industry and technology, many Americans are living under deprivation and anxiety. So happiness is not in accumulation of material goods, it's in sharing and caring.

  Satish Kumar

  Insecure, Caring, Technology

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• If we had adhered to the concept of connectedness, then we would not have created nuclear weapons, huge armies and global warming.

  Satish Kumar

  Army, Nuclear, Weapons

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• It is ludicrous to believe that he meant nuclear weapons can be used. It is truly fearful to see how the mainstream media in the west can construct an adversary and that there are so few dissenting voices.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Believe, Media, Voice

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The minute you start arming people in these conflict zones, things don't go as expected. We also need to look at precedent before making these decisions. Instead of listening to Muammar Qaddafi's rhetoric, we should look at how he's behaved. The fact is he's been making concessions recently. He gave up his nuclear weapons. He allowed hundreds of Americans to evacuate Tripoli. Did he crack down on his people who revolted? Yes, but that's not so unusual.

  Michael Hastings

  People, Decision, Listening

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The notion that we would condition Iran not getting nuclear weapons in a verifiable deal on Iran recognizing Israel is really akin to saying that we won't sign a deal unless the nature of the Iranian regime completely transforms. And that is, I think, a fundamental misjudgment.

  Barack Obama

  Nature, Thinking, Israel

  "Obama admits Iran nuclear deal only delays inevitable, leaves problem for future presidents", www.foxnews.com. April 7, 2015.

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• I have said publicly no option should be off the table, but I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table.

  Hillary Clinton

  Tables, Weapons, Nuclear

  "Clinton Discussed Use of Nukes Last Year". Bloomberg Television Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. April 2006.

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• We call upon the nuclear-weapon states to immediately cease their plans to further invest in modernizing and extending the life span of their nuclear weapons and related facilities.

  Mohammad Javad Zarif

  Life, Nuclear, Weapons

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