Nuclear Quotes - Page 17

• You cannot cause disproportionate damage to the environment; you cannot harm neutral states. The court said that the threat or use of nuclear weapons is generally contrary to the international law of armed conflict.

  John Burroughs

  Law, Use, Weapons

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• The court was unable to rule on all circumstances in which nuclear weapons might be used, and it said in view of the problems, the risks posed by nuclear weapons, and in view of the lack of certainty of the law in all circumstances, the best course is fulfilling the obligation of good faith negotiations of nuclear disarmament contained in the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

  John Burroughs

  Views, Law, Nuclear Disarmament

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• Here's how the court put it, and all judges agreed to this. The court said: "There exists and obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a conclusion negotiations under nuclear disarmament in all its aspects under strict and effective international control."

  John Burroughs

  Nuclear Disarmament, Judging, Negotiation

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• The overall quantity of nuclear weapons in the world continues to decline slowly.

  John Burroughs

  World, Weapons, Decline

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• [Nuclear weapons] now I think I mentioned around 27,000 and during the Cold War the total global arsenal was on the order of 70,000.

  John Burroughs

  War, Thinking, Order

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• The U.S. had about 10,000 nuclear warheads. It is estimated that the U.S. is heading towards having 6,000 nuclear warheads in the year 2012.

  John Burroughs

  Years, Nuclear War, Headings

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• The United States says "We're complying. We're following the disarmament obligation. Look at the quantitative reductions that are taking place." But, since '96, there really hasn't been progress on specific commitments that have been made. Perhaps most disturbing is this: that the United States and France in particular, since 1996, have expanded the range of circumstances under which they might use - they say they might use - nuclear weapons.

  John Burroughs

  Commitment, Might Use, Progress

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• Basically [United States and France] said "We will use nuclear weapons whenever it suits our purposes to do so." So this expansion of doctrines regarding possible use of nuclear weapons makes them more, you know, sort of, salient and important and so it's increasing the perceived political value of nuclear weapons and therefore causing or contributing to possible proliferation.

  John Burroughs

  Political, Important, Expansion

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• You have North Korea, you have nuclear weapons, and China could solve that problem. And they're not helping us at all.

  Donald Trump

  Korea, Weapons, Helping

  "Exclusive: Donald Trump on Cabinet picks, transition process". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. December 11, 2016.

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• Before I even came into office, I said that preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon was a priority.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, Office, Priorities

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I saw the relation with Russia as necessary to the U.S., for the interests of the U.S. We worked very closely with them on the Sochi Olympics. We were working closely with them on the Iranian nuclear deal.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Russia, Olympics, Saws

  "Smoke Signals from The Swamp: Meet General Michael Flynn" by Dook Snyder, theberkshireedge.com. October 30, 2017.

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• I think it's yet to be seen how that is going to shape up. But I can tell we all know that President-elect [Donald] Trump doesn't like the Iran deal, thinks it's a terrible document, thinks it will create a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, which it already is beginning to do.

  Reince Priebus

  Thinking, Race, Iran

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I agree that we need a working relationship with Russia to deescalate a nuclear arms race, to resolve the crisis in Syria.

  Katrina vanden Heuvel

  Russia, Race, Arms

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think that just as we're in the nuclear era we're also in an era of non-violence. It's undefeatable.

  Dorothy Day

  Thinking, Eras, Violence

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• I'm worried about the world because of nuclear proliferation.

  Michael Bloomberg

  World, Worried, Proliferation

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Ideas, People, Age

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Now when the historic religions give trivial answers to these very tragic questions of our day, when an evangelist says, for instance, we mustn't hope for a summit meeting, we must hope in Christ without spelling out what this could mean in our particular nuclear age. This is the irrelevant answer, when another Evangelist says if America doesn't stop being selfish, it will be doomed. This is also a childish answer because nations are selfish and the question about America isn't whether we will be selfish or unselfish, but will we be sufficiently imaginative to pass the Reciprocal Trade Acts.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Selfish, Mean, America

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Now we're living in a nuclear age, and the science that was supposed to be automatically for human welfare has become a nuclear - a science that gives us nuclear weapons. This is the ironic character of human history, and of human existence, which I can only explain, if I say so, in Biblical terms. Now I don't mean by this reason that I will accept every interpretation of Christianity that's derived from the Bible as many people wouldn't accept my interpretation. But that's what it means for me.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Character, Mean, Biblical

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Giving, Answers, Dilemma

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  War, Order, Risk

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• On both of my major trips to North Korea, the leaders of the country made it plain that they want to make progress towards doing away with nuclear weapons and towards ending the longstanding, official state of war which persists between North Korea and the United States and South Korea, a war which has continued since the ceasefire over fifty years ago. That sort of thing happens quite often when we meet with people who are kind of international outcasts with whom the government of the United States won't meet.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, War, Korea

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• If Donald Trump dismantles the agreement [the "Iran nuclear deal"] won by President Barack Obama with President Hassan Rouhani and the Iranian government and people: If he dismantles that, and puts greater sanctions on Iran, then we are leading to another war; another war inspired by Israel, another war that will bring China into war, Russia into war, Europe into war. And the Western world, in this war, will be taken completely down, and a whole new world is on the horizon.

  Louis Farrakhan

  War, Taken, Russia

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Russia is modernizing its nuclear systems. They're moving toward more effective tactical nuclear systems. They're moving toward delivery systems designed to evade anti-ballistic missile defenses. The Russians are investing, by the way, in robotic weapons, including a potential robotic tank. Their investment in new technology, I suspect, outweighs all of the European defense research and development spending combined.

  Newt Gingrich

  Moving, Technology, Russia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think Donald Trump is very, very cautious about nuclear weapons, and he's seriously concerned. And this might be one of the reasons he wants to deal with Putin carefully, because he's aware of how many nuclear weapons Putin has, and that Russian doctrine is much more open about using nuclear weapons than is American doctrine.

  Newt Gingrich

  Thinking, Doctrine, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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