Nuclear Weapons Quotes - Page 6

• A.I. poses a potential threat more dangerous than nuclear weapons.

  Judy Woodruff

  Nuclear, Weapons, Dangerous

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Iran has made vile comments, anti-Semitic comments, comments about the destruction of Israel. It is precisely for that reason that even before I became president, I said Iran could not have a nuclear weapon.

  Barack Obama

  Israel, Iran, President

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• ...nuclear threats and nuclear weapons are the last argument of weak, stressed and irresponsible politicians. People must act very quicky to stop the movement to nuclear war.

  Alla Yaroshinskaya

  War, People, Stressed

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• We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.

  John Spratt

  Order, Nuclear, Weapons

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• You know all the money we spend on nuclear weapons and defence every year? Trillions of dollars? Correct? Trillions. Instead, if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world,which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, not one, we could, as one race, explore outer space together in peace forever

  Bill Hicks

  Years, Space, Race

  "Love All the People". New Edition,

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• I`m determined that Iran will not get a nuclear weapon.

  Joe Manchin

  Iran, Nuclear, Weapons

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If the militarily most powerful and least threatened states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Country, Powerful, Insecure

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

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• My worry is that other advances in science may result in other means of
  mass destruction, maybe more readily available even than nuclear weapons.
  Genetic engineering is quite a possible area, because of these dreadful
  developments that are taking place there.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Mean, Mass Destruction, Engineering

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• I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, Nuclear, Hussein

  "Buying the War". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 25, 2007.

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• The challenge of preventing any further proliferation of nuclear weapons is just such a trial in the quest for world peace, one that cannot be achieved if we are defeated by a sense of helplessness. The crucial element is to ensure that any struggle against evil is rooted firmly in a consciousness of the unity of the human family, something only gained through the mastery of our own inner contradictions.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Struggle, Evil, Challenges

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• If we are to put the era of nuclear terror behind us, we must struggle against the real 'enemy.' That enemy is not nuclear weapons per se, nor is it the states that possess or develop them. The real enemy that we must confront is the ways of thinking that justify nuclear weapons; the readiness to annihilate others when they are seen as a threat or as a hindrance to the realization of our objectives.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Real, Struggle, Thinking

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• The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime, which gives financial support to terrorist organizations all over the world, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the wiping the state of Israel from the map, while developing long-range missiles and trying to obtain nuclear weapon.

  Moshe Katsav

  Israel, Organization, Long

  "Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". RFEL Interview, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.

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• The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin.

  Jenny Shipley

  Progress, Nuclear, World

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• We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Country, Essentials, Nuclear

  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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• All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.

  Alva Myrdal

  Learning, Nuclear, Weapons

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• There is no such thing as a good nuclear weapons system. There is no way to achieve, in the sound sense, national security through nuclear weapons.

  Herbert York

  Science, Achievement, Sound

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is time for the rest of the world to join ... in demanding that ALL the nuclear weapons states -including Israel, India and Pakistan, but above all the US and Russia - negotiate concrete steps on a definite time-table toward the global, inspected abolition of nuclear weapons.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Russia, Israel, India And Pakistan

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• It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal ever again, for any reason.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Hands, Nuclear Disarmament, Weapons

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• Nuclear weapons elimination will make all states and their people safer. It is time to assert our right to live in a nuclear weapons free world.

  Jonathan Granoff

  People, Nuclear, World

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• We must work toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons, and an end to policies which cause this country to move toward the weaponization of space.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Country, Moving, Space

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• the use of nuclear weapons is Iran's right.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Iran, Nuclear, Use

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• Nobody in the Senate on a bipartisan fashion trusts the Iranians. They lie. They cheat. They're a murderous regime. They've been trying to develop a nuclear weapon.

  Lindsey Graham

  Fashion, Lying, Trying

  "Sen. Graham on security of our nation's capital, 2016 plans; Sen. Sanders ready to challenge Hillary Clinton?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2015.

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• The nightmare of the Cold War was nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person. I don't want to live through that nightmare.

  Rudy Giuliani

  War, Hands, Nuclear

  "He's Ready! Rudy Giuliani Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. February 6, 2007.

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• The reason the world is in the spot it's in is because North Korea entered into an agreement and then did not keep up their terms of the agreement. They received aid in return for promising not to develop nuclear weapons. They took the aid, they ran with the aid and then they developed a nuclear weapons anyway.

  Ari Fleischer

  Agreement, Korea, Nuclear

  "Powell sees no progress from North Korean proposal", www.cnn.com. April 29, 2003.

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• In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.

  Herman Kahn

  Differences, World, May

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