Nuclear Quotes · Page 18

We reject the way the world is at the moment and we don't accept nuclear weapons

— Mairead Corrigan

I thought I was going to grow up and become a diplomat and negotiate nuclear arms.

— Timothy D. Snyder

In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear.

— Nikita Khrushchev

Donald Trump is a person who has been very cavalier, even casual about the use of nuclear weapons.

— Hillary Clinton

“After the nuclear war, kids like them’ll rule what’s left. It’ll be hell.”

— David Mitchell

To adopt nuclear disarmament would be akin to behaving like a virgin in a brothel.

— David Penhaligon

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

Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Before I even came into office, I said that preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon was a priority.

— Barack Obama

It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba as an attack by the Soviet…

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Anonymous

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I…

— Joshua Lederberg

Nuclear war would mean abolition of most comforts, and disruption of normal routines, for children and adults alike.

— Willard Libby

You have North Korea, you have nuclear weapons, and China could solve that problem. And they're not helping us at all.

— Donald Trump

The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.

— Tony Blair

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states…

— Barack Obama

The US in some ways has been the best. Who figured out shale gas? Although that wasn't a good thing [for CO2…

— Bill Gates

The thing that I focus on because I don't think it gets enough attention is that among the world's major powers, there…

— John Burroughs

With one hand, you're selling the country out to Western multinationals. And with the other, you want to defend your borders with…

— Arundhati Roy

I don't have a gun. But I think they level the playing field. I accept that there's really nothing you can do…

— Doug Stanhope

It doesn't seem to be that huge a commitment that would create, you know, some kind of really powerful constituency. But the…

— John Burroughs

It was about the compelling need to make countries get along to prevent war, in contrast with the totally petty and selfish…

— Jay Roach

I repeat what I suggest in my book [ Strategie de la deception]. The first deterrence, nuclear deterrence, is presently being superseded…

— Paul Virilio

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

— Arjun Makhijani

Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering, ... According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so…

— Russ Feingold

The technologists claim that if everything works [in a nuclear fission reactor] according to their blueprints, fission energy will be a safe…

— Hannes Alfven

Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely…

— Sara Maitland

Terrorists do not actually need nuclear weapons. They have been conveniently supplied with 103 nuclear power plants scattered throughout the United States…

— Helen Caldicott

In fact, we haven't ever really recalibrated our foreign policy commitments since the end of the Cold War. We still have alliances…

— Kevin Gutzman

“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

I happen to be a scientist. My background is in nuclear physics. I was a nuclear engineer. But I don't see any…

— Jimmy Carter

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

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

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

— Mohamed ElBaradei

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

— Mark Z. Jacobson

China is very concerned about the Iranian nuclear issue.

— Li Zhaoxing