Nuclear Quotes - Page 2

• I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

  James Lovelock

  Campaigns, Surprise, Heard

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• I feel like a nuclear missile. Point me in that direction, I'll go.

  George Dzundza

  Nuclear Missiles, Feels, Missiles

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• I think, in fact, the situation with respect to al Qaeda, to say that, you know, that was a big attack we had on 9/11, but it's not likely again, I just think that's dead wrong. I think the biggest strategic threat the United States faces today is the possibility of another 9/11 with a nuclear weapon or a biological agent of some kind. And I think al Qaeda is out there even as we meet, trying to figure out how to do that.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, Trying, United States

  "Biden vs. Cheney: Battle of the Vice Presidents". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. February 16, 2010.

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• For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda.

  Barack Obama

  Nuclear Terrorism, America, Nuclear Proliferation

  "AP Exclusive: Chile gives US weapons-grade uranium", www.foxnews.com. April 8, 2010.

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• The threat of nuclear terrorism is growing faster than our ability to prevent an attack on our homeland.

  Joe Lieberman

  Nuclear Terrorism, Growing, Faster

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• The greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists and nuclear proliferation to an increasing number of states.

  Barack Obama

  Nuclear Terrorism, Numbers, Nuclear Proliferation

  "U.S. announces new restrictions on nuclear weapon use", www.cnn.com. April 7, 2010.

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

  Charles E. Allen

  Terrorism, Concern, Devices

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• Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation and those nations that proliferate with chemical, biological and nuclear type devices, because that can cause the most catastrophic results.

  Hugh Shelton

  War, Hands, Causes

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• Science is dangerous. There is no question but that poison gas, genetic engineering, and nuclear weapons and power stations are terrifying. It may be that civilization is falling apart and the world we know is coming to an end. In that case, why no turn to religion and look forward to the Day of Judgment, ... [being] lifted into eternal bliss ... [and] watching the scoffers and disbelievers writhe forever in torment.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fall, Science, Engineering

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• Nuclear terrorism is still often treated as science fiction. I wish it were. But unfortunately we live in a world of excess hazardous materials and abundant technological know-how, in which some terrorists clearly state their intention to inflict catastrophic casualties. Were such an attack to occur, it would not only cause widespread death and destruction, but would stagger the world economy... [creating] a second death toll throughout the developing world.

  Kofi Annan

  Nuclear Terrorism, Creating, Wish

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• Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties and create immense suffering and unwanted change in the world forever. This prospect should compel all of us to act to prevent such a catastrophe.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Nuclear Terrorism, Forever, Suffering

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• 9/11 woke us up, a nuclear 9/11 could shut us down.

  Howard Bloom

  Terrorism

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• There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Investing, Energy

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. 1932.

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• I can't understand why anyone would want nuclear warheads. If you shoot them off, it's not like you can take over that country - all you do is kill millions of people.

  Rick Yune

  Country, People, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You can guarantee that mining uranium will lead to nuclear waste. You can't guarantee that uranium mining will not lead to nuclear weapons.

  Anthony Albanese

  Guarantees That, Uranium Mining, Weapons

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• American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.

  Camille Paglia

  Reality, College, Style

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.120, Vintage

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• War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.

  Alva Myrdal

  Military, War, Preparation

  Alva Myrdal, Cecilia Åse, Yvonne Hirdman (2002). “"Något kan man väl göra: texter 1932-1982”

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• My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

  Barry Commoner

  Issues, Environmental, Links

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• The wheel of Time wrote the first half of the poetry of mass destruction on the black board of the ashes of a funeral ground by dint of a pair of pens of nuclear bombs.

  Manmohan Acharya

  Mass Destruction, Funeral, Black

  "Gita Milindam (Song of the Bumblebee)". Book by Manmohan Acharya, July 12, 2010.

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• The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs.

  Kim Jong-un

  Forever, Enemy, Gone

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements.

  Anna Lindh

  Agreement, Iraq, Community

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• There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing.

  Martha Smith

  Country, India, Example

  "Martha Smith on: The Impact of the Bravo Test". PBS interview for "Race for the Superbomb" on "American Experience",

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• Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.

  Barack Obama

  Paris, Secret, Unions

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.274, Canongate Books

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• It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people.

  Eisaku Sato

  Government, Proliferation Treaty, People

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• Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Growing Up, War

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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