Nuclear Quotes - Page 39

• Obama has been saying for years now - he said it again on Sunday - that climate change is the biggest threat facing the planet, all the while he knew that Iran is just a couple months away from a nuclear bomb.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Couple, Sunday, Iran

  FaceBook post by Rush Limbaugh from Apr 21, 2015

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• Three-hundred times as many people died in Hamburg during the ten-day blitz as died in Coventry during the entire course of the war. “Not even Hiroshima and Nagasaki, suffering the smashing blows of nuclear explosions, could match the utter hell of Hamburg.

  Martin Caidin

  War, Blow, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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• The deadly arms race, and the huge resources it absorbs, have too long overshadowed all else we must do. We must prevent that arms race from spreading to new nations, to new nuclear powers and to the reaches of outer space.

  John F. Kennedy

  Race, Space, Long

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.26, Best Books on

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• The same technology transforming our lives can solve the greatest problem of the 20th century. A security shield can one day render nuclear weapons obsolete and free mankind from the prison of nuclear terror. America met one historic challenge and went to the Moon. Now America must meet another: to make our strategic defense real for all the citizens of planet Earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Real, Moon, Technology

  Reagan, Ronald (1988). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986”, p.129, Best Books on

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• We must proceed with our own energy development. Exploitation of domestic petroleum and natural gas potentialities, along with nuclear, solar, geothermal, and non-fossil fuels is vital. We will never again permit any foreign nation to have Uncle Sam over a barrel of oil.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Uncles, Oil, Energy

  Gerald R. Ford's speech as Vice President to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith in West Palm Beach, Florida, January 26, 1974.

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• In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere.

  Jimmy Carter

  Peace, Age, Threatened

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1978). “Jimmy Carter”

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• The Islamic State is dangerous, a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic is even more so.

  Tom Cotton

  Islamic, Republic, States

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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

  Joe Manchin

  Iran, Weapons, Determined

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• A nuclear armed Iran makes the world less safe, less stable, less secure.

  John Barrasso

  Iran, World, Safe

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The bad news is that Iran wants to talk about everything except their nuclear program. They want to talk about regional cooperation, they want to talk about the sanctions issues, and it seems like the western powers want to talk about nothing more than the nuclear issue.

  Reza Aslan

  Iran, Issues, News

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves).

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Nature, Self, True Beauty

  "Bully for Brontosaurus". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. Prologue, pp. 16 - 17, 1991.

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• I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.

  Fidel Castro

  Sacrifice, People, Victory

  "Castro Wanted a Nuclear Strike". The New York Times, October 23, 1992.

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• I hate to make predictions, but I think the economy is going to be permanently changed for the worse. I think our foreign policy is going to lead to changes that will be definitely for the worse, particularly if we drift into a nuclear Iran, which I gather that's what the administration is doing.

  Thomas Sowell

  Hate, Thinking, Nuclear Iran

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The biggest problem that the world has is nuclear weapons. Global warming is not our big problem. Our big problem is the maniacs that are controlling weaponry that has never been like it is today.

  Donald Trump

  World, Weapons, Today

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It's very important to make nuclear deals but you have to make them from strength, not from weakness.

  Donald Trump

  Important, Weakness, Deals

  "Donald Trump running for President". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. June 16, 2015.

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• The nuclear capability of Israel has resulted from this conspiracy, which provided for the highjacking of 200 tons of ore in 1968. The rumor was widespread in the knowledgeable circles of Salt Lake City that the Mormon Church had arranged to assist Israel in bringing off Armageddon.

  Mae Brussell

  Circles, Lakes, Israel

  Mae Brussell (2014). “The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations of Fascism in America”, p.249, Feral House

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• Plutonium is so hazardous that if you had a fully developed nuclear economy with breeder reactors fueled with plutonium, and you managed to contain the plutonium 99.99 percent perfectly, it would still cause somewhere between 140,000 and 500,000 extra lung-cancer fatalities each year.

  John Gofman

  Cancer, Years, Causes

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• At 2:26 AM on 3 June 1980, Colonel William Odom of the Strategic Air Command alerted National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski that the US nuclear warning system had detected an imminent 220-missile nuclear attack on the US. Shortly thereafter, the automated system revised its projection from 220 missiles to an all-out attack of 2200 missiles. Just before Brzezinski was about to wake up President Carter to authorize a counterattack, he was told that the 'attack' was an illusion caused by 'a computer error in the system'.

  Stansfield Turner

  Air, Errors, June

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• But if Saddam had been in a position credibly to threaten America or any of its allies - or the coalition's forces - with attack by missiles with nuclear warheads, would we have gone to the Gulf at all?

  Margaret Thatcher

  America, Allies, Gone

  "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World". Book by Margaret Thatcher (p. 49), April 16, 2002.

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• We got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.

  George W. Bush

  War, Israel, Iran

  "Sen. Lieberman Backs U.S. Action Against Iran". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 2, 2007.

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

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Iran, Use, Weapons

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• Those who insist on transferring the Iranian nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council have received an additional argument for doing so.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Argument, Council, Iranian

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• In contrast to my husband, I can pronounce the word nuclear.

  Laura Bush

  Husband, Contrast, I Can

  Dutch-Belgian newspaper "Metro", May 2, 2005.

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• We are entirely for the idea that Europe shall be free from nuclear weapons, from medium-range weapons as well as tactical weapons. That would be a real zero option.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Zero, Real, Europe

  "Nuclear War: The Search for Solutions". Book by Leonard V. Johnson, 1985.

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• It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Country, War, Eye

  "Indefensible Weapons: The Political and Psychological Case Against Nuclearism". Book by Robert Jay Lifton and Richard A. Falk, p. 224, 1992.

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