Nuclear weapons Quotes · Page 6

“Are you ready for nuclear Armageddon?”

— Michael Parker

“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

the use of nuclear weapons is Iran's right.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We have evidence that Iran makes a reactor to possess nuclear weapons.

— Ariel Sharon

If the Iranians were to have a nuclear weapon they could proliferate.

— George W. Bush

Nuclear weapons can be dismantled, but they cannot be uninvented.

— Martin Rees

The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear…

— Leon Panetta

Iran is waging a war of attrition against Israel and at the same time advancing its plans to obtain military nuclear weapons.

— Yoav Gallant

[Hillary Clinton] worked a tough negotiation with nations around the world to eliminate the Iranian nuclear weapons program without firing a shot.

— Tim Kaine

Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

It has always been clear that any use of nuclear weapons would have catastrophic humanitarian consequences.

— Peter Maurer

Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.

— Herman Kahn

The Framework Agreement is one of the best things the [Clinton] Administration has done because it stopped a nuclear weapons program in…

— Madeleine Albright

The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.

— Robert McNamara

There are nine countries in the world that have nuclear weapons. There are about 27,000 nuclear weapons total on the planet. The…

— John Burroughs

The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the…

— Herman Kahn

With respect to the relationship between nuclear weapons and the advent of détente, one has to consider two things. One, the nature…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Let me be crystal clear: There is no such thing as 'limited use' nuclear weapons, and for a Pentagon advisory board to…

— Dianne Feinstein

Nothing is going to hurt this country - not bioweapons, not a nuclear weapon, not a terrorist strike - there is nothing…

— Wesley Clark

I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological,…

— Walter Isaacson

Just like Sept. 11, only with nuclear weapons this time, that's the threat. I think that is the threat. I think it's…

— John Bolton

Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

I think, in fact, the situation with respect to Al Qaida to say that, you know, that was a big attack we…

— Dick Cheney

Human beings have got a lot of good, noble impulses inside them, and most people want to be good and do more…

— Stephen King

My one concern is that Hu Jintao may overestimate how much power China has in Pyongyang. They have - they do have…

— Robert M. Gates

There is no doubt that . Saddam Hussein has reinvigorated his weapons programs. Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programs continue…

— Bob Graham

I have been reluctant to lobby on other issues I most care about - nuclear weapons (against), religion (atheist), capital punishment (anti),…

— Ian Mckellen

When faced with world problems - like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the arms trade - you may be among those who are…

— Scilla Elworthy

As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if they are trying to develop nuclear…

— Noam Chomsky

Nuclear weapons production and testing has involved extensive health and environmental damage … One of the most remarkable features of this damage…

— Arjun Makhijani

“How could the vacuum, which has nothing in it, have any energy at all? The answer comes from another equation: Einstein's famous…

— Charles Seife

[Should] Iraq acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year.

— George W. Bush

Lawyers are like nuclear weapons. By all rights they shouldn't exist, but if some people have them, then you'd better have one,…

— John Gierach

The purpose of nuclear weapons is to deter. The mission of deterrence to make all parties in possession of nuclear weapons never,…

— Rick Wilson

The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don't want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon.

— Hillary Clinton

Obviously, we don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons and I don't know if they're developing them, but if they're not developing…

— Martin Van Creveld

Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.

— Valerie Plame

The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern.

— Mitchell Reiss

There was plenty of evidence that Saddam had nuclear weapons, by the way. That is not in dispute. There is plenty of…

— Christopher Dodd

[Nuclear weapons] now I think I mentioned around 27,000 and during the Cold War the total global arsenal was on the order of 70,000.

— John Burroughs