Nuclear Weapons Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Most Americans will be horrified that President Obama is compromising our deterrent to chemical and biological attacks on this country. Our allies will also be troubled by his aspiration to eliminate U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.

  Frank Gaffney

  Country, Europe, President

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• We favor a strong nonproliferation program that emphasizes diplomacy, reliance on multilateral regimes, controls on nuclear materials, and cooperative nuclear threat reduction.

  George W. Bush

  Religious, Strong, Nuclear

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• We call on all members of America's religious communities, as a testament of our common faith, to join Faithful Security, and to take action immediately to break faith with nuclear weapons.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Religious, America, Community

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• When you drop bombs on the enemy, you drop those same bombs on yourself, your own country.

  Nhat Hanh

  Country, Religious, Enemy

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• At this crucial crossroads of history, we join to call on the world to recognize that violence begets violence; that nuclear proliferation benefits no one; that we can, we will, and we must find other ways to protect ourselves, our nations and our future: for it is not sufficient to have peace in our time, but, instead, we must leave a peaceful world to our children.

  David Saperstein

  Religious, Children, Peaceful

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• From the prophets' dreams of the time when nations would beat their swords into plowshares to today's aspirations of a nuclear-weapons-free world, we have sought to avoid armed conflict and not yield to despair in the search for universal peace. The nuclear threats from Iran, North Korea, and terrorists can only be overcome through international cooperation. We call upon Congressional leaders and those worldwide to join together to ensure the fulfillment of these long-overdue initiatives and the achievement of a safer future without nuclear weapons.

  David Saperstein

  Dream, Religious, Yield

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• I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.

  Haley Barbour

  Country, Smart, Thinking

  "Barbour Responds to 2012 Chatter". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 8, 2009.

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• Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation

  William Sloane Coffin

  Religious, Nuclear, Weapons

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• Peace is not just the absence of war and conflict; it goes well beyond that. Peace must be fostered within the individual, within the family and within society. Simply transferring the world's nuclear weapons to a museum will not in itself bring about world peace. The nuclear weapons of the mind must first be eliminated.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Religious, War, Museums

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “Living In Harmony”, p.31, M A Center

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• But I really believe it is in America's interest as well as that of the free world more generally to stop Iran from getting its hands on nuclear weapons. This regime has threatened to wipe Israel off the map and bring about a world without America, and either of those is a really bad prospect.

  Frank Gaffney

  Believe, Hands, Iran

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• There is only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons... use them.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Nuclear, Use, Politics

  "Rush Limbaugh’s War on Christmas" by Richard Schiffman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2012.

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• The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.

  Hans Blix

  War, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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• In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Nuclear, Weapons, Unleashed

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• We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.

  George Wald

  Nuclear, Weapons

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• I would characterize current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous

  Robert McNamara

  Inspirational, Nuclear, Weapons

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• Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.

  Barbara Amiel

  Europe, Energy, Raw Materials

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• Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy mentioned that he's moving in the right direction to begin to ascertain that their trade with Iran is not used for the production of nuclear weapons.

  Frank Carlucci

  Moving, Iran, United States

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• My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  War, Feelings, Nuclear

  "Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years" by Daniel Ellsberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2009.

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• What we have is North Korea still pursuing path to a nuclear weapon state. So the majority of people's trust in North Korea has gone down considerably.

  Lee Myung-bak

  Korea, People, Majority

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• Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either - though that's probably because he actually has nuclear weapons, as opposed to Iran which might or might not be trying to acquire them and thus remains on the Israeli-American target list.

  Robert Fisk

  Iran, Trying, Nuclear

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