Nuclear Quotes - Page 8

• The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all.

  Chuck Horner

  Military, Nuclear Missiles, Want

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• There is no such thing as a pro-nuclear environmentalist.

  Tom Harkin

  Environmentalist

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• In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.

  Dexter Gordon

  War, Men, Equal

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• Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  War, Ghouls, Secret

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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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• India, in particular, is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic, commercial use, and we should work with them. This is a good deal for both countries.

  Bobby Jindal

  Country, India, Use

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• In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force.

  Charles Bass

  Deployment, Design, Nuclear Missiles

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• The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.

  Charles Bass

  Government, Design, United States

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• I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.

  David Baltimore

  Running, Thinking, Technology

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• This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Jobs, Moon, Men

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• Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

  William Eldridge Odom

  War, Way, Consideration

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• I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power.

  Manmohan Singh

  Responsible, Mixed Economy, I Can

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• If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.

  Bruce Kent

  Iran, Weapons, Firsts

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• The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.

  Mitchell Reiss

  Country, Korea, United States

  "Interview with State Department Policy Planning Director Mitchell Reiss". Interview with Paul Kerr and Miles Pomper, www.armscontrol.org. April 9, 2004.

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• I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.

  Ed Miliband

  Moving, Nuclear Disarmament, Together

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  Mr. President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.

  Sarah Palin

  Guy, President, Stopping

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. April 29, 2014.

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• You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Football, Country

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

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• To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

  Marilyn French

  Family, Mom, Mother

  Marilyn French (2013). “Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel”, p.1070, Open Road Media

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• The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.

  Billy Connolly

  Looks, Comedy, Glasgow

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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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• 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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• So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Science, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.45, New Directions Publishing

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• What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences of his own folly. With a little wisdom and foresight, surely it is not yet necessary to forsake life in the fresh air and in the warmth of the sunlight. What a paradox if our own cleverness in science should force us to live underground with the moles.

  J. William Fulbright

  Men, Air, Moles

  "Fulbright of Arkansas: The Public Positions of a Private Thinker". Book by J. William Fulbright, 1963.

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• To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  War, Winning, Isis

  Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at a joint meeting of Congress, www.nytimes.com. March 3, 2015.

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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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