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Quotes About Nuclear

The more Israel sinks into the West Bank, the more it is delegitimized and isolated, the more the world focuses on Israel's colonialism rather than Iran's nuclear enrichment, the more people call for a single democratic state in all of historic Palestine.
~ Thomas Friedman
I have long believed, especially after the unprovoked Western attack on Iraq and the ransacking of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, that North Korea would not desist from the full development of its nuclear weapons program, despite threats and sanctions from the West and even from China.
~ Paul Keating
A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.
~ John Bruton
The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.
~ Lawrence Eagleburger
One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.
~ Lawrence Eagleburger
President Obama is asking critics of the Iran nuclear deal what the alternative is other than war as if it's rhetorical question, but there is an answer: a better deal.
~ Lee Zeldin
We must modernize our greatest deterrent and keep peace among our adversaries with our nuclear arsenal.
~ Tommy Tuberville
The red line must be drawn on Iran's nuclear enrichment program because these enrichment facilities are the only nuclear installations that we can definitely see and credibly target.
~ Ehud Barak
Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task.
~ Richard P. Feynman
I told President Obama he was about to buy a helicopter that in several respects was not as good as what he already had, that each would cost between $500 million and $1 billion—but that he could microwave a meal on it in the middle of a nuclear attack. As I expected, he thought the whole thing was a pretty bad idea.
~ Robert M. Gates
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.
~ Albert Einstein
Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
~ George Wald
When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.
~ Paul Wolfowitz
I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.
~ Stanley Kubrick
There is no such thing as a good nuclear weapons system. There is no way to achieve, in the sound sense, national security through nuclear weapons.
~ Herbert York
People who worry that nuclear weaponry will one day fall in the hands of the Arabs, fail to realize that the Islamic bomb has been dropped already, it fell the day MUHAMMED (pbuh) was born.
~ Joseph Adam Pearson.
Howling duststorms of nuclear ashes. Human and animal bone powder. Flakes and fragments of the destroyed world. Filthy tempests of death. I am in Hell, he said.
~ C.J. Anderson, Ruinland
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
~ Omar N. Bradley
We have long since gone beyond the moon, touched down on Mars, the moon, harnessed nuclear energy, artificially reproduced DNA, and now have the biochemical means to control birth; why should death itself, the Last Enemy, be considered sacred and beyond conquest?
~ Alan Harrington
Unlike T.V., we cannot have too much of science, despite its nuclear quirks. With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth ... but we, as gardeners, must beware, for some seeds are the seeds of ruin, and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous.
~ Alan Moore
A dream. I. . . I just had a dream is all. W-we were kissing, and then this nuclear bomb, it just. . . we burned up. We were gone. Everything was gone. . . It's this war, the feeling that it's unavoidable. It makes me feel so powerless. So impotent.
~ Alan Moore
And there is also this fact: The only people who want a nuclear power plant, or a solar panel, or a wind turbine, are people who demand industrial levels of energy. Those levels are needed for a single purpose: the wholesale conversion of the living to the dead, the longest war ever. And our choice is now very stark: Stand with the living or go down with the dead.
~ Derrick Jensen