Nuclear Quotes - Page 5

• Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?

  Bianca Jagger

  War, Thinking, President

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• When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Mind, Pandemics

  "Grounding a Pandemic". New York Times OpEd by Barack Obama and Richard Lugar, www.nytimes.com. June 06, 2005.

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• Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Peace, Survival, Age

  "Seeds of Peace : A Catalogue of Quotations" by Jeanne Larson and Madge Micheels, (p. 203), 1986.

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• The era of nuclear terrorism has arrived.

  Liam Fox

  Nuclear Terrorism, Eras, Terrorism

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• The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind
  any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to
  safeguard against its abuse. Only a supranational organization, equipped with a sufficiently
  strong executive power, can protect us.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Discovery, Organization

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.65, Broadway Books

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• You know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.

  Matt Groening

  Boys, Buttons, Nuclear Reactors

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• I have not taken a position on that nuclear option. My view is I'm not going to do anything until I come to that bridge. I'm not going to jump off the bridge until I come to it

  Arlen Specter

  Taken, Views, Bridges

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• A nuclear-power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Science, Power, Years

  "The Seattle Times" Newspaper, January 3, 1994.

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• We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Bravery, Bombs, Want

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• All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.

  James Buchan

  Delay, Should, Stations

  "A complete waste of energy". www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2002.

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• The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.

  Herman Kahn

  Numbers, Objectivity, Weapons

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.29, Lexington Books

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• Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Weapons, Firsts, Resolution

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.130, I.B.Tauris

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• Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.

  Ed Pastor

  Country, Barcelona, Chance

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• The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.

  Zach Wamp

  Ambition, Russia, Japan

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• We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.

  Bruce Sterling

  War, Clouds, Mushrooms

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• We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.

  Kary Mullis

  Eyebrows, Childhood, Enemy

  Kary Mullis (2010). “Dancing Naked in the Mind Field”, p.27, Vintage

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• Japan continues to work closely with the United States on the issue of the North Korean nuclear crisis and has played an important and constructive role in the Six-Party talks.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Party, Japan, Usa

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• Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.

  Arthur Goldberg

  Law, Age, Illusion

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• If we are to meet the growing electricity demand in the United States without significantly increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, we must maintain a diverse supply of electricity, and nuclear power must be part of that mix.

  Judy Biggert

  United States, Growing, Demand

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• I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

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• The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.

  E. P. Thompson

  Real, Balance, Metaphysical

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• If we dont continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas.

  Judy Biggert

  Risk, Energy, Alternatives

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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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• We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

  Omar N. Bradley

  History, Atoms, Atomic Weapons

  Speech on Armistice Day, Boston, Mass., 11 Nov. 1948

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• What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.

  John Cheever

  Writing, Roles, Literature

  "Home before Dark". Book by Susan Cheever, 1984.

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