Nuclear Weapons Quotes

• India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

  Abdul Kalam

  Dream, India, Nuclear

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• I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2003). “Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity”, George Braziller

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• For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Time, Power, Past

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• A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. The only value in our two nations possessing nuclear weapons is to make sure they will never be used. But then would it not be better to do away with them entirely?

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Two Nations, Nuclear Missiles

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Military, History, Nuclear Missiles

  Margaret Thatcher's speech at Soviet official banquet at St George's Halls, The Kremlin, www.margaretthatcher.org. March 30, 1987.

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• Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Proliferation

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Telegram to prominent Americans, 24 May 1946

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• The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Nuclear Disarmament, Nukes

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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

  Oscar Arias

  Nuclear Disarmament, Earth, Weapons

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• A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between East and West than exists at present, a world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Dream, Nuclear, World

  Margaret Thatcher's Speech at a Soviet Official banquet, St George's Halls, the Kremlin, www.margaretthatcher.org. March 30, 1987.

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• Unfortunately, nuclear weapons have become identified with state power.

  John Burroughs

  Nuclear, Weapons, States

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• Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

  Omar N. Bradley

  War, Evil, Nuclear Missiles

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• The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)

  Albert Einstein

  Lying, Heart, Thinking

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• The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth. Nuclear arms cannot bolster the security of any nation because they represent a threat to the security of the human race. These incredibly destructive weapons are an affront to our common humanity, and the tens of billions of dollars that are dedicated to their development and maintenance should be used instead to alleviate human need and suffering

  Oscar Arias

  Common Humanity, Nuclear Disarmament, Race

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• If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

  Albert Einstein

  Knowledge, Science, Should Have

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• I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Peace, Mean

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.153, Humanix Books

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• Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.

  Kofi Annan

  Commitment, Nuclear Disarmament, Political

  Kofi Atta Annan, United Nations. Dept. of Public Information (2000). “"Wir die Völker" : die Rolle der Vereinten Nationen im 21. Jahrhundert ; [ein neues Jahrhundert - neue Herausforderungen]”, p.53, United Nations Publications

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• Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

  Stephen Hawking

  Race, Survival, September 11

  "Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking". Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 16, 2001.

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• I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Death, Military, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

  Onthe detonationof the first atomicbomb,16 Jul1945.Quoted in Len Giovanitti and Fred FreedThe Decision to Drop the Bomb (1965).

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• Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar spent on making the world a comparatively dirtier and a more dangerous place, because nuclear power and nuclear weapons go hand in hand.

  Mark Z. Jacobson

  Hands, World, Weapons

  "Nuclear power is too risky" by Mark Z. Jacobson, www.cnn.com. February 22, 2010.

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• You can't be a real country unless you have a beer.

  Frank Zappa

  Country, Real, Drinking

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

  Colin Powell

  Zero, Military, Heart

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• The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.

  Martin Amis

  Race, Nuclear, Arms

  "Einstein's Monsters". Book by Martin Amis, Introduction: "Thinkability", April 30, 1987.

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• As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Nuclear Terrorism, Weapons

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• Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

  Danny DeVito

  Nuclear, Ems, Use

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