Nuclear Quotes

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The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit… — Michael Leunig
To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous… — Lamar Alexander
As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed… — Taylor Wilson
Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive… — Taylor Wilson
The message from national security experts and citizens around the world is clear: The only way to eliminate the global nuclear danger is to eliminate… — Michael Douglas
Five million Jews are regarding me as a traitor, but six billion people around the world think me as a hero and a good man… — Mordechai Vanunu
We do not know which irresponsible Israeli prime minister will take office and decide to use nuclear weapons in the struggle against neighboring Arab countries.… — Mordechai Vanunu
Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we… — B.F. Skinner
My red line is Iran may not have a nuclear weapon. It is inappropriate for them to have the capacity to terrorize the world. Iran… — Mitt Romney
A nuclear power reactor is just a fancy way of boiling water. — Leslie Dewan
When I was at Berkeley, the framework of quantum field theory could calculate the dynamics of electromagnetism. It could roughly describe the motion of the… — David Gross
There are some people that will be deterred by the fact that we have nuclear weapons... But those people are the folks we can deal… — Charles Horner
If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating… — Myriam Miedzian
The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field… — John Cameron
Nuclear physics is interesting but it is unlikely to help society. — John Cameron
When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge… — John Cameron
I started the nuclear medicine laboratory at UW Hospitals in 1959 and trained radiology residents in the field. It was 1965 before they found a… — John Cameron
Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do not continue to… — Mohamed ElBaradei
So, we need to delegitimize the nuclear weapon, and by de-legitimizing... meaning trying to develop a different system of security that does not depend on… — Mohamed ElBaradei
We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who… — Mohamed ElBaradei

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