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• When contemplating a shield that would protect America for incoming missiles, Democrats suddenly became hardheaded fiscal conservatives. For the first time in recorded history, liberals were concerned about the cost and usefulness of a government program. These people believe federally funded art therapy for the homeless will pay for itself. That you can take to the bank. But a shield to repel incoming nuclear missiles from American soil they said, was too expensive and wouldn't work.

  Ann Coulter

  Art, Believe, America

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• If Iran and North Korea, by some horrible, devilish, nightmarish scenario, got together and went to war at the same time, one against Saudi Arabia and one against South Korea, I don't know what we would do about that. I don't know that we could stop them short of using nuclear weapons.

  Ben Stein

  War, Iran, Korea

  "Economist Ben Stein". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 30, 2012.

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• When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some 15,000 nuclear warheads, active and in reserve. Fifteen thousand weapons with an average yield of 20 Hiroshima bombs.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Yield, Average, Bombs

  "Remember Your Humanity". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. 1995.

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• I have been reluctant to lobby on other issues I most care about - nuclear weapons (against), religion (atheist), capital punishment (anti), AIDS (fund-raiser) because I don't want to be forever spouting, diluting the impact of addressing my most urgent concern - legal and social equality for gay people worldwide.

  Ian Mckellen

  Atheist, Gay, Impact

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• President Obama hosted lawmakers Thursday saying he wanted bipartisan input on health care reform. Nobody's mind was changed. At the summit's end he threatened to go with the nuclear option, showing he's tougher on Republicans than he is on Iran.

  Argus Hamilton

  Iran, Mind, President

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• The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

  Abdul Kalam

  Technology, People, Safety

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• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  Abdul Kalam

  Weapons, Today, India

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• 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

  War, People, Causes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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, Would Be, Ends

  Palin, Biden debate, edition.cnn.com. October 3, 2008.

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• North Korea has the same ability to launch a nuclear strike against America as I do. It's like walking through a parking lot and getting barked at by a chihuahua locked in a car.

  Bill Maher

  Korea, America, Car

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• North Korea conducted a nuclear test and the blast was so small that many scientists are saying it was a dud. Apparently, the nuclear bomb didn't work well because it was made in Korea.

  Conan O'Brien

  Korea, Tests, Bombs

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• The Republicans finally got some good news over the weekend. The North Koreans set off a nuclear bomb. Thank God. It was so powerful it knocked the Mark Foley story right off the front page. And knocked him off the page he was on, too.

  Jay Leno

  Powerful, Weekend, Thank God

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• North Korea is making several demands in exchange for giving up their nuclear program, including a promise from America not to attack them. Which is a little strange because for us to attack them we would have to have slam dunk proof that they have weapons of mass destruction. I mean, for Gods sakes people, we're not maniacs. It would have to be an air-tight case. We wouldn't just come in there and start bombing you.

  Jon Stewart

  Giving Up, Mean, Mass Destruction

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• North Korea announced that they have nuclear weapons and they have no plans to give them up. The White House, acting quickly, announced their plan to invade Iran.

  Craig Ferguson

  Iran, Korea, White

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• Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?

  B. F. Skinner

  Holocaust, Waiting, Steps

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• I have seen the rise and fall of Nazi tyranny, the subsequent cold war and the nuclear nightmare that for fifty years haunted the dreams of children everywhere. During that time my generation defeated totalitarianism. As a result, your world is poised for better tomorrows. What will you do on your journey?

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Children, War

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• The Obama administration has revealed the size of America's nuclear arsenal. We have 1,000 warheads aimed at China, 1,000 aimed at Russia, and the rest aimed at Fox News.

  Jay Leno

  Russia, America, News

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• The proposed liberal solution was always negotiation. Just as they believed in nuclear arms negotiations for their own sake, they believe in a "peace process" without regard to what its consequences might be....It was impossible for any peace plan to fail in their eyes, since lack of progress was nearly always interpreted as evidence that new talks were now "urgent".

  Mona Charen

  Believe, Eye, Progress

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• I think we have an administration today that is dysfunctional. And if it can't get itself together to organize a serious program for finding nuclear material on its way to the United States, then it ought to be replaced by an administration that can.

  Richard Perle

  Thinking, Together, United States

  "An Administration Ally Goes Off-Message". Richard Perle's speech at a Center for Strategic and International Studies gathering, www.washingtonpost.com. November 1, 2006.

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• The only enemy is ignorance. Peace, people. Let's get rid of all this nuclear testing.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Ignorance, People, Enemy

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• If there was a war, a big war, a major war on the planet, it would be a nuclear war, and it would destroy all life, human and subhuman, on planet earth.

  Benjamin Creme

  War, Would Be, Earth

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Eighty percent of global warming is the result of man's wrongful use of the resources of the planet and the dumping of millions upon millions of tons of nuclear and other waste in the world, creating great toxic areas all over our skies, our oceans, our rivers, and the earth.

  Benjamin Creme

  Ocean, Men, Sky

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• One of the deadliest issues is the nuclear radiation pouring from every nuclear power station in the world. With every atomic process and experimentation that is going on, high-level nuclear radiation is pouring out at the highest level.

  Benjamin Creme

  Issues, Pouring, World

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The incidence of Alzheimer's disease is growing at a pace like never before, affecting people at a younger and younger age. This is the direct effect of nuclear radiation polluting the air of our planet from the power stations and other nuclear experimentation.

  Benjamin Creme

  Alzheimer's, Direct Effect, Air

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I think the West needs to get away from the habit of regarding the regime's nuclear tests and ballistic launches as isolated provocations timed to generate maximum attention.

  Brian Reynolds Myers

  Thinking, Needs, Attention

  "North Korea’s Latest Alarming Nuclear Test Is Part of Its Apocalyptic “Final Victory” Strategy" by Isaac Chotiner, www.slate.com. January 6, 2016.

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