Nuclear Deterrence Quotes

• The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Philosophy, Nuclear, Deterrence

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.131, I.B.Tauris

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• Our nuclear free status means that we decline to acquiesce in the strategies of nuclear deterrence. We will not turn a blind eye to them, and pretend that the weapons are no longer a threat. We will not in any way tolerate the testing of nuclear weapons, or their manufacture, or their deployment.

  David Lange

  Mean, Eye, Deployment

  David Lange's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

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• Presidents should be very careful at all times in discussing the use or non-use of nuclear weapons. Presidents since the cold war have used nuclear deterrence to keep the peace, and I don't believe that any president should make any blanket statements with respect to the use or non-use of nuclear weapons.

  Hillary Clinton

  War, Believe, President

  "Clinton, Gates, Schumer, and Kyl". "This Week", www.realclearpolitics.com. August 2, 2007.

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• Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe.

  Bill Gates

  Important, Nuclear, Climate

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• New Zealand’s nuclear free movement is a broad-based and popular movement. Our nuclear free status is a challenge to much that is accepted as orthodox in international relations. It was formally adopted in the cold war era as a form of resistance to the dismal doctrines of nuclear deterrence. It is still a rebuke to the unprincipled exercise of economic power and military might.

  David Lange

  Military, War, Exercise

  David Lange's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

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• I repeat what I suggest in my book [ Strategie de la deception]. The first deterrence, nuclear deterrence, is presently being superseded by the second deterrence: a type of deterrence based on what I call 'the information bomb' associated with the new weaponry of information and communications technologies.

  Paul Virilio

  Book, Communication, Technology

  Source: ctheory.net

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