Nuclear Quotes - Page 11

• If Iran and North Korea, by some horrible, devilish, nightmarish scenario, got together and went to war at the same time, one against Saudi Arabia and one against South Korea, I don't know what we would do about that. I don't know that we could stop them short of using nuclear weapons.

  Ben Stein

  War, Iran, Korea

  "Economist Ben Stein". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 30, 2012.

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• When contemplating a shield that would protect America for incoming missiles, Democrats suddenly became hardheaded fiscal conservatives. For the first time in recorded history, liberals were concerned about the cost and usefulness of a government program. These people believe federally funded art therapy for the homeless will pay for itself. That you can take to the bank. But a shield to repel incoming nuclear missiles from American soil they said, was too expensive and wouldn't work.

  Ann Coulter

  Art, Believe, America

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• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  Abdul Kalam

  Weapons, Today, India

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• North Korea has the same ability to launch a nuclear strike against America as I do. It's like walking through a parking lot and getting barked at by a chihuahua locked in a car.

  Bill Maher

  Korea, America, Car

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• I have been reluctant to lobby on other issues I most care about - nuclear weapons (against), religion (atheist), capital punishment (anti), AIDS (fund-raiser) because I don't want to be forever spouting, diluting the impact of addressing my most urgent concern - legal and social equality for gay people worldwide.

  Ian Mckellen

  Atheist, Gay, Impact

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• Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?

  B. F. Skinner

  Holocaust, Waiting, Steps

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• North Korea is making several demands in exchange for giving up their nuclear program, including a promise from America not to attack them. Which is a little strange because for us to attack them we would have to have slam dunk proof that they have weapons of mass destruction. I mean, for Gods sakes people, we're not maniacs. It would have to be an air-tight case. We wouldn't just come in there and start bombing you.

  Jon Stewart

  Giving Up, Mean, Mass Destruction

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• I think we have an administration today that is dysfunctional. And if it can't get itself together to organize a serious program for finding nuclear material on its way to the United States, then it ought to be replaced by an administration that can.

  Richard Perle

  Thinking, Together, United States

  "An Administration Ally Goes Off-Message". Richard Perle's speech at a Center for Strategic and International Studies gathering, www.washingtonpost.com. November 1, 2006.

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• The incidence of Alzheimer's disease is growing at a pace like never before, affecting people at a younger and younger age. This is the direct effect of nuclear radiation polluting the air of our planet from the power stations and other nuclear experimentation.

  Benjamin Creme

  Alzheimer's, Direct Effect, Air

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Eighty percent of global warming is the result of man's wrongful use of the resources of the planet and the dumping of millions upon millions of tons of nuclear and other waste in the world, creating great toxic areas all over our skies, our oceans, our rivers, and the earth.

  Benjamin Creme

  Ocean, Men, Sky

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The proposed liberal solution was always negotiation. Just as they believed in nuclear arms negotiations for their own sake, they believe in a "peace process" without regard to what its consequences might be....It was impossible for any peace plan to fail in their eyes, since lack of progress was nearly always interpreted as evidence that new talks were now "urgent".

  Mona Charen

  Believe, Eye, Progress

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• The Republicans finally got some good news over the weekend. The North Koreans set off a nuclear bomb. Thank God. It was so powerful it knocked the Mark Foley story right off the front page. And knocked him off the page he was on, too.

  Jay Leno

  Powerful, Weekend, Thank God

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• When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some 15,000 nuclear warheads, active and in reserve. Fifteen thousand weapons with an average yield of 20 Hiroshima bombs.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Yield, Average, Bombs

  "Remember Your Humanity". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. 1995.

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• I'm afraid there's a big confusion in the world between nuclear power and nuclear arms.

  Abdus Salam

  Confusion, World, Arms

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• Israel has a couple of hundred nuclear weapons and also chemical and biological weapons. This stockpile is not only a threat in itself but encourages others to proliferate in reaction and in self-defense. Is anybody saying anything about this?

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, Israel, Self

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. May 1, 2004.

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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, Weapons, Global Warming

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

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• People either buy nuclear power, nuclear reactors from outside, and don't train their own men, or they just don't go into nuclear power at all, they are so afraid of it.

  Abdus Salam

  Men, People, Nuclear Reactors

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• Personally I would like to see that the nuclear age, in terms of power, does come, because there's no long-term future for developing countries without nuclear power.

  Abdus Salam

  Country, Long, Age

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• It’s very easy to capture pictures of jubilant people in the street after the nuclear bomb. But there were no pictures of morose people sitting in their kitchens and living rooms.

  Amartya Sen

  People, Kitchen, Sitting

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• This whole notion that the robot has to declare nuclear war is one part of the discussion, but it may not be reality. Reality is, maybe it can empathize to a far greater degree than we can and experience a way wider range of emotions. So, why not have a robot that can do that?

  Neill Blomkamp

  War, Reality, Degrees

  Source: collider.com

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• My childhood was marked by the great fear of nuclear holocaust. We practiced our Civil Defense Drills, lining up in hallways, curled to the floor, but we knew we'd die or, worse, survive only to suffer radiation and slow death.

  Julianna Baggott

  Holocaust, Childhood, Suffering

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.

  Abdus Salam

  Training, Doe, Nuclear Reactors

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• When I was in high school, I was in a special math class. I was infatuated with physics, particularly nuclear physics, Einstein, and the Big Bang. I read a lot about black holes. And partly because I'm so lazy I thought you could do all this just by looking at the sky and thinking up universes. It didn't seem like hard work when I was a kid, so I enrolled in this class.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  School, Kids, Hard Work

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Now that Iran's actions have been verified, it can begin to receive relief from certain nuclear sanctions and gain access to its own money that had been frozen.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, Relief, Frozen

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• Our tolerance of the intolerable found a low threshold as early as the late 1950s with the grotesque excesses of McCarthyism, which destroyed so many honest lives, and then with the insane nuclear arms race and confrontations.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Race, Tolerance, Insane

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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