Nuclear Weapons Quotes - Page 25

• I still believe that any country understands that if they use nuclear weapons, they will be wiped out of existence. They could be irrational in many ways, but I don't think they're irrational to the point that they're ready to annihilate their own country.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  "Mohamed ElBaradei: What I've Learned" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. January 31, 2011.

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• The fact is that it's the most dangerous place to be on the political scale is to brand those on the other side as racist. That's the atomic bomb. That's the nuclear weapon of an American.

  Mark Shields

  Political, Facts, Sides

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's dark and it's divisive - deporting 11 million people, talking about law and order, calling every group of people in America names, talking about cutting taxes on the wealthy, feeling like Donald Trump can bring more nuclear weapons into the world - I mean, everything he's talked about is a form of change.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mean, Cutting, Dark

  "This Hillary Clinton interview is my favorite of the entire 2016 election". "The Breakfast Club", www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2016.

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• As we get robots becoming more sophisticated, I think we should worry sooner rather than later on how much they could take over, but I think it'll mostly be a positive thing. In terms of deadlines it won't be any worse than nuclear weapons.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Worry, Becoming

  Source: thesource.com

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• So the idea about how detonation of a nuclear weapon might happen vary, you know - some people are especially concerned about terrorists getting their hands on nuclear weapons and using them. Some people are worried that there might be a nuclear war between India and Pakistan. Some think the Middle East, were Israel already has nuclear weapons and where other countries may be interested at some point and acquiring them, might be a flash point.

  John Burroughs

  Country, War, Thinking

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• [Saddam] Hussein maintains an active and aggressive nuclear weapons program.

  Sandy Berger

  Iraq, Nuclear, Hussein

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• I come to this debate, Mr. Speaker, as one at the end of 10 years in office on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction was one of my top priorities. I applaud the President on focusing on this issue and on taking the lead to disarm Saddam Hussein... Others have talked about this threat that is posed by Saddam Hussein. Yes, he has chemical weapons, he has biological weapons, he is trying to get nuclear weapons.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Mass Destruction, Years, Iraq

  "Pelosi: Unilateral Use of Force Will Be Harmful to the War on Terrorism". Nancy Pelosi's address to the US House of Representatives, pelosi.house.gov. October 10, 2002.

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• I want to reassert again the position of the United States that with regards to Iran, we will not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon, period. We will not allow them to develop a nuclear weapon, and we will exert all options in the effort to ensure that that does not happen...The United States stands firmly with Israel, and we have a rock solid commitment to the security of Israel and to the security of its citizens.

  Leon Panetta

  Commitment, Rocks, Israel

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• There is little doubt that Iran is on a mission to rebuild its nuclear weapons and use that capability to wreak havoc and destruction on Israel and others throughout the world.

  Russ Carnahan

  Israel, Iran, Doubt

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• The American government is making nuclear weapons like there's no tomorrow.

  Emo Philips

  Government, Nuclear, Weapons

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• So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.

  Joseph Rotblat

  War, Thinking, Long

  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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• Furthermore, the Latin American nuclear-weapon free zone which is now nearing completion has become in several respects an example which, notwithstanding the different characteristics of each region, is rich in inspiration.

  Alfonso Garcia Robles

  Latin, Inspiration, Example

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• We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  Powerful, Technology, Nuclear

  "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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• We reject the way the world is at the moment and we don't accept nuclear weapons

  Mairead Corrigan

  Nuclear, World, Weapons

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• Whereas Iraq has consistently breached its cease-fire agreement between Iraq and the United States, entered into on March 3, 1991, by failing to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction program, and refusing to permit monitoring and verification by United Nations inspections; Whereas Iraq has developed weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological capabilities, and has made positive progress toward developing nuclear weapons capabilities

  Tom Harkin

  Agreement, Iraq, Fire

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• Iraq both poses a continuing threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region and remains in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations by, among other things, continuing to possess and develop a significant chemical and biological weapons capability, actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability, and supporting and harboring terrorist organizations.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wmd, Organization, Iraq

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• Common sense told us that to preserve the peace, we'd have to become strong again after years of weakness and confusion. So, we rebuilt our defenses, and this New Year we toasted the new peacefulness around the globe. Not only have the superpowers actually begun to reduce their stockpiles of nuclear weapons...but the regional conflicts that rack the globe are also beginning to cease.

  Ronald Reagan

  New Year, Strong, Years

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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• A convention on the comprehensive ban of nuclear weapons should be negotiated. Since biological and chemical weapons have been prohibited, there is no reason why nuclear weapons, which are more destructive, should not be comprehensively banned and thoroughly destroyed. All it takes to reach this objective is strong political will.

  Jiang Zemin

  Strong, Political Will, Nuclear

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• Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to be a happy and well world.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Nuclear, Alternatives

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• I will confine myself to reaffirming the Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons to the region.

  Shimon Peres

  Country, Israel, Nuclear

  "Shimon Peres: 'Sanctions on Iran could work'". Le Figaro, July 26, 2007.

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• If the Iranians were to have a nuclear weapon they could proliferate.

  George W. Bush

  Nuclear, Weapons, Ifs

  News conference in the White House briefing room, www.nbcnews.com. March 21, 2006.

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• The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers - and thermonuclear weapons.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Dinosaurs, Weapons, Changing Environment

  "The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (Foreword)". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 2000.

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• I can't believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us. And I just think of what a sigh of relief would go up from everyone on this earth if someday-and this is what I have-my hope, way in the back of my head-is that if we start down the road to reduction, maybe one day in doing that, somebody will say, 'Why not all the way? Let's get rid of all these things'.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Believe, Thinking

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• The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will possess nuclear or even thermonuclear weapons.

  John F. Kennedy

  Commitment, Political, Nuclear

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• As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Long, Risk, Nuclear

  Mohamed ElBaradei (2011). “The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times”, p.187, Macmillan

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