Nuclear Weapons Quotes - Page 19

• The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

  Susan Rice

  Korea, Risk, Add

  "Interview with U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 6, 2009.

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• All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Zero, Nuclear, Use

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.132, I.B.Tauris

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• We have evidence that Iran makes a reactor to possess nuclear weapons.

  Ariel Sharon

  Iran, Nuclear, Weapons

  "Sharon: Coalition should 'put pressure upon Iran'". Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. April 13, 2005.

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• Israel has many hopes, and faces extreme dangers. The most prominent danger is Iran, which is making every effort to acquire nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, and establishing an enormous terror network together with Syria in Lebanon.

  Ariel Sharon

  Israel, Iran, Effort

  "Ariel Sharon's address to the Knesset", www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2004.

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• If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.

  Ted Turner

  United States, Would Be, Nuclear

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• Bush is actually encouraging the spread of nuclear weapons because the one thing I do know is if Iran did have nuclear weapons they wouldn't be threatening them.

  Tony Benn

  Threatening, Spread

  Source: mattkennard.tumblr.com

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• I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit.

  Dennis Potter

  Art, Believe, People

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• It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness.

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, Believe, Heart

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• To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

  Marilyn French

  Family, Mom, Mother

  Marilyn French (2013). “Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel”, p.1070, Open Road Media

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• The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Race, Tasks, Nuclear

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.130, I.B.Tauris

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• When faced with world problems - like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the arms trade - you may be among those who are overwhelmed by a feeling of "Help! What on earth can I, just one person, do about this?" Take heart. That's a sane response. It's the basis for a whole new attitude to world problems, where change at the level of the individual is more and more recognised as essential to change in huge world systems.

  Scilla Elworthy

  Attitude, Heart, Feelings

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• The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I am optimistic enough to believe that the next scourge to disappear will be large-scale warfare-killed by the existence and nonuse of nuclear weapons.

  Luis Walter Alvarez

  War, Believe, Optimistic

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• The gravest threat faced by the world is of an extremist group getting hold of nuclear weapons or materials.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Extremist Groups, Nuclear, World

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• 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.

  Dick Cheney

  Cities, Groups, Nuclear

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• I think, in fact, the situation with respect to al Qaeda, to say that, you know, that was a big attack we had on 9/11, but it's not likely again, I just think that's dead wrong. I think the biggest strategic threat the United States faces today is the possibility of another 9/11 with a nuclear weapon or a biological agent of some kind. And I think al Qaeda is out there even as we meet, trying to figure out how to do that.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, Trying, United States

  "Biden vs. Cheney: Battle of the Vice Presidents". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. February 16, 2010.

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• If you have created the fifth generation of atomic bombs and are testing them already, what position are you in to question the peaceful purposes of other people who want nuclear power? We do not believe in nuclear weapons, period. It goes against the whole grain of humanity.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Believe, People, Peaceful

  President Ahmadinejad Delivers Remarks at Columbia University, www.washingtonpost.com. September 24, 2007.

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• No single nation should pick and choose which nations holds nuclear weapons. And that's why I strongly reaffirmed America's commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons.

  Barack Obama

  Commitment, World

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• My one concern is that Hu Jintao may overestimate how much power China has in Pyongyang. They have - they do have influence, and they do have companies, and they do have economic relationships that could make life much more difficult in the north. Their balancing act is, "How much worse can we make it in the north without creating that which scares us more than anything, which is a collapse in the north." And then what happens to all those nuclear weapons. So they're going to work very hard to avoid that.

  Robert M. Gates

  Scare, Influence, Economic

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• North Korea is a direct threat to the United States. They have been very clear in their rhetoric we don't have to wait until they have an intercont- intercontinental ballistic missile with a nuclear weapon on it to say that now it's manifested completely.

  James Mattis

  Waiting, Threat, Rhetoric

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• One of the three big factors that count against war in the relationship between China and the U.S. are, first, nuclear weapons and even a condition of mutual assured destruction. Secondly, one's got two economies that have become so deeply interlaced that a war between the U.S. and China would leave Wal-Marts empty and Chinese factories producing for nothing. Thirdly, climate - if between the two of us, we keep doing what we're doing, we can create a climate in which our grandchildren won't be able to live.

  Graham T. Allison

  War, Grandchildren, Chinese

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think the world is safer without Iran with a nuclear weapon. The world has got the potential to be safer if we fully implement the Paris agreement.

  John F. Kerry

  Thinking, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Trump said today that if countries are going to have nuclear weapons, then he said the United States needs to be at the top of the back, in his words, meaning increasing the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

  Judy Woodruff

  Country, Today

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Trump loves dictators. He's got kind of a personal Mount Rushmore, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, Moammar Gadhafi and Saddam Hussein. And last and most dangerously, Donald Trump believes - Donald Trump believes that the world will be safer if more nations have nuclear weapons.

  Tim Kaine

  Believe, World, Kind

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Donald Trump can't even handle the rough and tumble of a presidential campaign. He loses his cool at the slightest provocation. When he has gotten a tough question from a reporter, when he is challenged in a debate. When he sees a protester at a rally. Imagine, if you dare imagine, imagine him in the Oval Office facing a real crisis. A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons. And in the end, it comes down to what Donald Trump doesn't get, America is great because America is good.

  Hillary Clinton

  Real, Men, Office

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It was Hillary Clinton who worked with Russia on the New START Treaty to reduce their nuclear weapons stockpile. It was Hillary Clinton that worked with Russia to get them engaged in a community of nations to stop the Iranian nuclear weapons without firing a shot. She's not going around praising Vladimir Putin as a great guy. But she knows how to sit down at a table and negotiate tough deals. This is a very challenging part of the world, and we ought to have a commander-in-chief who is prepared and done it, rather than somebody who goes around praising Vladimir Putin as a great leader.

  Tim Kaine

  Guy, Leader, Community

  "National Security Highlights from the Vice Presidential Debate". www.lawfareblog.com. October 5, 2016.

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