Nuclear Quotes - Page 16

• The second touchstone for America I think unquestionably was pushing to conclusion the program we had with the Russians to control the Soviet nuclear arsenal. I tend to think that more than anything else, that will come back to haunt us.

  Michael Scheuer

  Thinking, America, Pushing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you ask which of the scenarios I think is most dangerous, though, I will give a different answer. In that form of the question, I regard a nuclear attack, terrorist-generated or otherwise, as the most threatening combination of likelihood and long-term damage to modern life today.

  John L. Casti

  Thinking, Long, Giving

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When we succeeded in winning the Cold War, escaping a nuclear Armageddon that could have killed us all, the U.S. inevitably had a serious problem about an encore: what now for our place in the world?

  Graham T. Allison

  War, Winning, Escaping

  "Central Challenges of U.S. Foreign Policy: Five Questions with Graham Allison". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com.

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• I don't think that any deal was needed: Iran was not a threat. Even if Iran were a threat, there was a very easy way to handle it - by establishing a Middle East Nuclear Weapons Free Zone, which is something that nearly everyone in the world wants.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Iran, World

  "Noam Chomsky on the 2016 Republicans: "I Have Never Seen Such Lunatics in the Political System". Interview with Simone Chun, www.alternet.org. March 11, 2016.

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• I mean science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly.

  Freeman Dyson

  War, Mean, World

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 5, 2010.

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• Now "professional" seems to be whoever you went to school with. It constitutes your nuclear world. And that's the fault of the teachers; it's not the fault of the young artist.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Teacher, School, Artist

  Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com

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• It is also important to respect the fact that Iran is a signatory to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, which treaty spells out the rights and obligations of signatures to the treaty and therefore that we can’t deny Iran the rights due to it as a signature of the NPT.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Rights, Iran, Proliferation Treaty

  Interview with Lionel Barber, www.ft.com. April 3, 2007.

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• Hillary [Clinton] had started running a million-dollar ad campaign trying to define [Donald] Trump as temperamentally unfit for the office and intellectually unfit. No experience. It's dangerous to let Trump anywhere near the nuclear codes and the push button and so forth.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Office, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I came into politics because of a real childhood concern about the Cold War. So to me the importance of the nuclear deterrent is actually really ingrained in me.

  Andrea Leadsom

  Real, War, Childhood

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I will not sleep fine if Donald Trump wins and I will not sleep fine is Hillary Clinton wins. Whether you are looking at nuclear weapons, whether you are looking at expanding wars and their blowback, which will not stop as long as those wars continue to expand, or whether you're looking at the climate, in my view, we have no choice. This is an existential moment. We are deciding not only what kind of world we will have, but whether we will have a world or not. I think it's very important to get outside this box that tells us we are powerless, when in fact, we are powerful.

  Jill Stein

  Powerful, War, Sleep

  "Meet Jill Stein, the Woman Determined to Take On Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in November". Interview with Krystal Marie Ball, www.glamour.com. July 25, 2016.

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• It was during George W. Bush's presidency that Iran mastered the nuclear fuel cycle, that they built covert facilities, that they stocked them with centrifuges, that they were spinning merrily away toward getting a nuclear-weapons program.

  Hillary Clinton

  Iran, Fuel, Weapons

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• When I was secretary of state, I had to be responsible for getting a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia through the Senate. We needed, I think, 13 Republican votes to get to 67. I started working in the summer making just endless phone calls, meetings, bringing experts to talk to Republicans, and then we finally got it done at the end of the year 2010. So I'm excited to roll up my sleeves and get into the business of solving problems and making progress together.

  Hillary Clinton

  Summer, Thinking, Phones

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Take the [1980] Jimmy Carter-Ronald Reagan debate. Carter kept trying to imply that somehow Ronald Reagan was going to push the button, or was irresponsible with nuclear war. You might have been able to make the case that Carter was responsible. But it's very tough when you see a person with Reagan's nice-guy persona up there to believe this guy somehow wants nuclear war, that he somehow wants to antagonize the Russians into an attack. It's just not credible; it doesn't cut with what all your other senses are telling you.

  Roger Ailes

  War, Nice, Believe

  Source: www.campaignsandelections.com

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• I asked Secretary [Robert] Gates, what did they get in return for giving up the nuclear shield of Poland and the Czech Republic? And you know what his answer was? Nada. They got nothing.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Giving Up, Czech Republic, Answers

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Hillary Clinton's policies unleashed ISIS, spread terrorism and put Iran on a path to nuclear weapons.

  Donald Trump

  Isis, Iran, Weapons

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Iranian nuclear policy is transparent, and we have opened our facilities to United Nations inspectors. However, we will not abandon the great achievements of Iranian scientists. I too will not suspend uranium enrichment. However, I will attempt to avoid unnecessary tensions. We have a right to enrich uranium.

  Mir-Hossein Mousavi

  Achievement, Unnecessary, Scientist

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I see that the West is beginning to separate the question of nuclear armament from the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

  Mir-Hossein Mousavi

  Peaceful, Energy, Use

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage, and a mystique that has allowed the dominant regime to manipulate the Kashmiri "Other" as a stereotypical and predictable entity.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Two, India And Pakistan, Lineage

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• It has been known for some time that a major nuclear war might lead to nuclear winter that would destroy the attacker as well as the target. And threats are now mounting, particularly at the Russian border, confirming the prediction of George Kennan and other prominent figures that NATO expansion, particularly the way it was undertaken, would prove to be a "tragic mistake," a "policy error of historic proportions."

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Mistake, Winter

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• The consensus is that climate change ranks along with nuclear warfare as the top two risks facing human civilization.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Civilization, Two, Risk

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisk". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• Changing an economic system that is bent on uncontrolled and poorly measured economic growth and depends on fossil energy for its main objectives, is much more difficult than changing how nuclear energy is used for military purposes. Some think it may be impossible.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Military, Thinking, Growth

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• As I came through medical school, it was very exciting because physicians were reaching out to each other, between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and sort of helping to build bridges among, you know, people, people who were not allowing our government to pit us against each other and to actually take us to the brink of nuclear war. And Physicians for Social Responsibility wound up getting a Peace Prize, a Nobel Peace Prize, which they shared with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.

  Jill Stein

  War, School, Responsibility

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• She [Hillary Clinton] wants to start an air war over Syria with Russia, a nuclear-armed power.

  Jill Stein

  War, Russia, Air

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I don't think this is rocket science. I think we have some common interests, like dismantling our nuclear weapons, dealing with terrorism and, in my view, you know, [Barack] Obama is now cooperating with [Vladimir] Putin to drop bombs.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Views, Bombs

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• The salvation of the world ultimately lies in moving towards universal nuclear disarmament, but that's a long distance away.

  Manmohan Singh

  Distance, Lying, Moving

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