Nuclear Quotes · Page 16

Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.

— Ban Ki-moon

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

— Abdus Salam

Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian - U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that.

— Charles Horner

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

— Nikita Khrushchev

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain”

— Anonymous

Nuclear accidents anywhere can affect people everywhere.

— Ban Ki-moon

I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now.

— Al Gore

“A nuclear test is not a nuclear test. It is an intelligence test.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence…

— Herman Kahn

By any reasonable standard of proof, the combination of human epidemiology and track-analysis demonstrates that there is no threshold dose or dose-rate…

— John Gofman

The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't…

— Condoleezza Rice

Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience.

— Dalai Lama

The greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists…

— Barack Obama

The nuclear family must be destroyed... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.

— Linda Gordon

There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they're not implemented fully, because the U.S. won't allow…

— Noam Chomsky

President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

— John O. Brennan

You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded. Because the elements, the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for…

— Anonymous

With all of the history of war, and the human race's history unfortunately has been a good deal more war than peace,…

— John F. Kennedy

The same advice my commanding officer at Patrol Squadron 17, Cmdr. Robert J. Quinn, gave me before I was grilled to be…

— Pete Olson

Iran's continued drive to develop nuclear capabilities, including troubling enrichment activities and past work on weaponization documented by the IAEA, and its…

— Leon Panetta

The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If…

— Carl Sagan

We do not know which irresponsible Israeli prime minister will take office and decide to use nuclear weapons in the struggle against…

— Mordechai Vanunu

[With] military threats, you can see them actually, you can imagine it. People don't think about it enough. But if you think…

— Noam Chomsky

It is time for the rest of the world to join ... in demanding that ALL the nuclear weapons states -including Israel,…

— Daniel Ellsberg

[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency…

— Jonathan Schell

Increasingly independent black economic, cultural and political power gave Blacks more freedom to do what came natural to them. Divorced from White…

— David Duke

There tends to be this comfortable assumption that nuclear weapons won't be used, but I don't think that's warranted, and I think…

— John Burroughs

I want to reassert again the position of the United States that with regards to Iran, we will not allow Iran to…

— Leon Panetta

What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of…

— Jeanette Winterson

Now when the historic religions give trivial answers to these very tragic questions of our day, when an evangelist says, for instance,…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

If Saddam's regime and survival are threatened [by invasion], he will have nothing to lose, and may use everything at his disposal...…

— Edward Kennedy

“Yes, we have had disarmament conferences and limitations of arms conferences. They don't mean a thing. One has just failed; the results…

— Smedley D. Butler

There is no need for nuclear. The world can be powered by wind, water and sun alone.

— Mark Z. Jacobson

If a country is suspected of going nuclear, you need to understand why. Why does it feel insecure?

— Mohamed ElBaradei

China is very concerned about the Iranian nuclear issue.

— Li Zhaoxing

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

— Laura Bush

U.S. nuclear weapons that are available for presidential use are targeted against broad ocean areas.

— C. Robert Kehler

The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to take.

— John O. Brennan

I'm prepared to continue doing what we need to do to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

— Steve Scalise

The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

— Stephanie Mills