Nuclear Quotes

• 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

• I am 54 years old and happily single. In addition to my nuclear family, I have a close circle of friends. Most of my friends are men. But my reputation is such that their female partners would never consider me a threat.

  

  Geraldine Lee Wei Ling
  • Single
  • Female
  • Reputation

• Theft annoys me more than anything else. The purloining of effects from another magician. Some people think it's massive to steal the secrets of nuclear reactors, but to steal a card move is trivial. They're wrong.

  

  Ricky Jay
  • Secret
  • Annoying
  • Stealing

• 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

• 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

• If the nuclear dossier is referred to the U. N. Security Council, Iran will have to resume uranium enrichment.

  

  Ali Larijani
  • Iran
  • Nuclear
  • Uranium

• It is the foremost responsibility of the United States, having been the predominant nuclear power, to take the lead in scaling this back and making good on its signed and sealed and ratified obligation in Article 6 of the non-proliferation treaty going back to '68 to eliminate this nuclear arsenal. That's a serious international obligation.

  

  George Lee Butler
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Serious

• Iran will for sure have pledged to the international community that it will not develop a nuclear weapon, and now will be subject to an additional protocol, a more vigorous inspection and monitoring regime that lasts in perpetuity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Community
  • Iran
  • Nuclear

• There is no question we need an energy policy overhaul in America. A key part of that overhaul must include moving forward aggressively with expanding nuclear energy as a renewable energy source. Storing nuclear waste is an important piece of that effort.

  

  Erik Paulsen
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Moving

• 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

• Losing more of our existing nuclear fleet will make it that much tougher to meet our carbon reduction goals. We need to keep ramping up renewables, but they can't meet our need for reliable power 24/7. Nuclear is a baseload source and it's carbon-free - two things we need.

  

  Eileen Claussen
  • Goals
  • Losing
  • Reduction

• 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

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

  

  Michael C. Burgess
  • Support
  • Industry
  • Uranium

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

  

  Tony Blair
  • Wife
  • Sleep
  • Minors

• Nuclear war can ruin your whole compile.

  

  Karl Lehenbauer
  • Whole
  • Nuclear
  • Compile

• I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Power
  • Should
  • Plant

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Richard Lugar
  • Weapons
  • Accountability
  • Nuclear

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

  

  Charles E. Allen
  • Terrorism
  • Concern
  • Materials

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

  

  Walter Goodman
  • War
  • Ideas
  • Nuclear

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