Nuclear Quotes

• Nuclear weaponry, of course, would be the be-all, end-all of just too many people in too many parts of our planet.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • People
  • Planet
  • Weaponry

• There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

  

  Noam Chomsky
  • Problems
  • Environmental
  • Nuclear

• I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.

  

  Mohamed ElBaradei
  • Democracy
  • Weapons
  • Nuclear

• Nuclear proliferation is on the rise. Equipment, material and training were once largely inaccessible. Today, however, there is a sophisticated worldwide network that can deliver systems for producing material usable in weapons.

  

  Mohamed ElBaradei
  • Equipment
  • Sophisticated
  • Proliferation

• Israel has a sizeable nuclear arsenal and could retaliate if it were attacked.

  

  Stephen M. Walt
  • Israel
  • Nuclear
  • Attacked

• I think it's kinda nice.' And I did. my mom isn't famous for her pies. No, she's famous for defusing a nuclear device in Brussels with only a pair of cuticle scissors and a ponytail holder. Somehow, at the moment, pies seemed cooler.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Nuclear
  • My Mom
  • Scissors

• One point I like to stress is that we should think of coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear, as clean energy.

  

  Alex Epstein
  • Energy
  • Nuclear
  • Coal

• The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200.

  

  Mordechai Vanunu
  • Numbers
  • Weapons
  • Amount

• Mammoth organizations, these ponderous processes. Many people don't realize that the nuclear capability that this country [USA] amassed and maintained over the period of the Cold War cost $6 trillion .

  

  George Lee Butler
  • Country
  • Organization
  • Periods

• As long as Iran believes that its security will be increased by having a nuclear program, it's going to pursue its program.

  

  Stephen Kinzer
  • Security
  • Program
  • Pursue

• Whether the issue was black political power or nuclear power, Scott-Heron didn't mince words. His comeback record, "I'm New Here," doesn't mince words either, but instead of political battles, these songs suggest he's fighting personal ones.

  

  Will Hermes
  • Political
  • Fighting
  • Comeback

• Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Wife
  • Sleep
  • Minors

• This is not an approach that would be tolerated in other forms of protest. Anti-nuclear activists may blockade power stations or weapons facilities. Even they would regard it as irresponsible to try to sabotage them, aiming to cause maximum damage, in the expectation that the resulting debate will outweigh the harm done.

  

  Edward Lucas
  • Weapons
  • Damage
  • Harm

• Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Reason
  • Sometimes
  • Danger

• Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry.

  

  Michael C. Burgess
  • Support
  • Industry
  • Uranium

• The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.

  

  Mitchell Reiss
  • Program
  • Concern
  • Countries

• Experimental evidence has now verified that nuclear reactions can be caused to occur in heavily loaded solids. It is premature to predict where this is headed from an applications point of view, but the basic science is clearly revolutionary.

  

  George H. Miley
  • Science
  • Revolutionary
  • Nuclear

• Nuclear war can ruin your whole compile.

  

  Karl Lehenbauer
  • Whole
  • Nuclear
  • Compile

• We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

  

  Richard Lugar
  • Weapons
  • Accountability
  • Nuclear

• 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 who bring the message to all the human beings that we should survive and prevent the use of nuclear weapons and to prevent the nuclear preparations and to prevent nuclear war in the future.

  

  Mordechai Vanunu
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Messages

• The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

  

  Walter Goodman
  • War
  • Ideas
  • Nuclear

• When you look at biology, look at the natural world, the roles of a male and a female in society, and other animals, the male typically is the dominant role. The female, it’s not antithesis, or it’s not competing, it’s a complementary role. We as people in a smart society have lost the ability to have complementary relationships in nuclear families, and it’s tearing us apart.

  

  Erick Erickson
  • People
  • Animal
  • Female

• One of our gravest concerns is the entry of a nuclear device or materials into the U.S.

  

  Charles E. Allen
  • Terrorism
  • Concern
  • Materials

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