Nuclear Quotes

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Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There will be more than enough… — Jonathan Schell
We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same time… — Errol Barrow
The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I am… — Luis Walter Alvarez
We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be… — John F. Kennedy
My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them… — John McCain
The gravest threat faced by the world is of an extremist group getting hold of nuclear weapons or materials. — Mohamed ElBaradei
The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear… — Dick Cheney
I think, in fact, the situation with respect to Al Qaida to say that, you know, that was a big attack we had on 9/11,… — Dick Cheney
For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda. — Barack Obama
Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics. — Lee H. Hamilton
The threat of nuclear terrorism is growing faster than our ability to prevent an attack on our homeland. — Joe Lieberman
The greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists and nuclear proliferation… — Barack Obama
One of our gravest concerns is the entry of a nuclear device or materials into the U.S. — Charles E. Allen
Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation and those nations… — Hugh Shelton
The risks of transporting deadly nuclear waste, the environmental justice impacts and the long-term health effects of both these projects are untenable...We cannot afford to… — James Cromwell
The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used-we cannot accept the idea of such… — Linus Pauling
Human beings should only use technology which if the worst case happens, it leads to an acceptable damage. Definitely nuclear energy is not in that… — Hans-Peter Durr
The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. — Stephanie Mills
Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror. — George Wald
The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two absolute requisites: We must aim at a… — Jacques Monod

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