Quotes About Nuclear

Robert Oppenheimer infamously equated the nuclear bomb with Krishna's cosmic form.

If there's a one percent chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al-Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response.

I believe that we were not as effective in the second term dealing with this issue of nuclear none proliferation as we had been during the first term when we stripped Libya and Iraq and A.Q. Khan and their capacity to proliferate nuclear technology.

Kernkraftwerke hinzustellen, ohne zu wissen, wo der Atommüll endlagert werden kann, ist wie das Abziehen einer Handgranate bevor man weiss, wo man sie hinwerfen wird.

A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense.

The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth.

The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.

My guests never predicted nuclear boiling annihilation, otherwise they surely would have posed in more pretty-making fashions, chasing the ever-present ambition to be the most becoming of the dead.

Abstinence-only education seeks to create a world where everyone is straight, women are relegated to the home, the only appropriate family is a nuclear one, reproductive choices are negated, and the only sex people have is for procreation.

If America and the Western world continue in their state of unconscious hopelessness, lack of faith and of fortitude, it is predictable that they will not be able to resist the temptation of the big bang by nuclear weapons, which would end all problems - overpopulation, boredom, and hunger - since it would do away with all life.

Wars did not cease in the twentieth century, notwithstanding the growth of international trade: it was not GATT but MAD, mutually assured destruction, which prevented large-scale wars after 1945.

I knew we were going to pass one of the Soviet Union's most secret atomic sites, the subterranean labyrinth code-named Krasnoyarsk-26, once one of the world's most prodigious producers of plutonium. Built to make the fissile material for nuclear warheads, the entire complex had been constructed inside the mountain. It never appeared on Soviet maps.

Expired condoms are like nuclear waste: there's nothing sensible you can do with it.

So a nuclear reactor is based on a nuclear chain reaction in much the same way as we have seen a nuclear bomb is also based on a nuclear chain reaction.

Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan.

There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.

We will never vote for the renewal of Trident; that's a decision which will fall to be made in the next Westminster parliament. We will never vote for that.

There is a clear norm against the spread of nuclear weapons, but there is no consensus or treaty on what, if anything, is to be done once a country develops or acquires nuclear weapons.

There were giant scale barriers to becoming a nuclear power, whereas launching a cyberattack requires only some coding capability, a laptop and an Internet connection.

Russian strategy seems to center on maintaining Putin's popularity at home; building a strong military capacity in special forces, nuclear weapons, and advanced submarines; pressuring nearby nations to join various defense and customs pacts dominated by Russia; and pushing back on the U.S. wherever convenient.

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

The planet's spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while these people roll these machines with rubber tires over this hard surface that we've laid down over the planet so that we can easily move ourselves back and forth.

When we see a lack of leadership coming from the White House, that's what brings leaders in Turkey to attack Israel the way they do. When we see a lack of leadership coming from the White House, that's why we see the leader of Iran... continuing to build the nuclear reactors.