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• All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Years, Office

  "Burlington Free Press" (Vermont), February 15, 1980.

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• I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.

  Dick Cheney

  Real, Cities, Ideas

  Dick Cheney during Vice-Presidential Debate at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, www.cbsnews.com. October 5, 2004.

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• But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War.

  Joseph Rotblat

  War, Heart, Race

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.130, I.B.Tauris

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• Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal.

  John Sununu

  Technology, Use, Hussein

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• As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say.

  Tom Udall

  Learning, Issues, Process

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• Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

  Danny DeVito

  Ems, Use, Weapons

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• Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea.

  John Bruton

  Korea, Weapons, States

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• Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Strong, Race, Long

  Joseph Rotblat, Ikeda Daisaku (2006). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.117, I.B.Tauris

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• While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare

  Boris Yeltsin

  Mean, Warfare, Needs

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• I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Peace, Mean

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.153, Humanix Books

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• Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Light, Space, Fusion

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

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• Let them bomb Japan with that nasty missile. Their missile cannot load a nuclear warhead.

  Shintaro Ishihara

  Japan, Bombs, Nasty

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• I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world.

  Jay London

  Worry, World, Nightmare

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• I don't think that Iran with a nuclear capability will be just the problem of the state of Israel. This is a matter that concerns the whole world.

  Moshe Katsav

  Thinking, Israel, Iran

  "Interview: Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty interview, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.

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• This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.

  James Lovelock

  Crazy, War, Sigh Of Relief

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• Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

  Walter Kohn

  Physics, Structure, Particular

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• There is little doubt that Iran is on a mission to rebuild its nuclear weapons and use that capability to wreak havoc and destruction on Israel and others throughout the world.

  Russ Carnahan

  Israel, Iran, Doubt

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• Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.

  Norman Thomas

  War, People, Likes

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• In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Groups, Tasks, Research

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• The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Anger, Achievement, Society

  "Collected Writings, Volume 1" by Omar N. Bradley, 1967.

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• Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

  Omar N. Bradley

  War, Evil, Nuclear Missiles

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• If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

  Winston Churchill

  Fun, Humorous, Race

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• Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Environmental, Energy, Needs

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• National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

  Jacques Chirac

  Defense, Weapons, Proliferation

  "Putin Bends Clinton's Ear Hoping to Halt Missile Shield". www.nytimes.com. July 22, 2000.

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• A nuclear-power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Science, Power, Years

  "The Seattle Times" Newspaper, January 3, 1994.

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