Nuclear Quotes

Electricity generation emits more carbon dioxide in the United States than does transportation or industry, and nuclear power is the largest source of carbon-free electricity in the country.

If some nuclear properties of the heavy elements had been a little different from what they turned out to be, it might have been impossible to build a bomb.

If we had adhered to the concept of connectedness, then we would not have created nuclear weapons, huge armies and global warming.

They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.

Today, the danger of some sort of a nuclear catastrophe is greater than it was during the Cold War, and most people are blissfully unaware of this danger.

Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.

The nuclear industry is currently undergoing a rebirth. The uranium market will remain tight for at least the next three years.

Camera-phones are like nuclear power plants: bad people will turn them into evil, good people will put them to good use.

As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others.

Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.

Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

The only way to reduce the number of nuclear weapons is to use them.

People either buy nuclear power, nuclear reactors from outside, and don't train their own men, or they just don't go into nuclear power at all, they are so afraid of it.

We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.

The entire world will be in nuclear war, and only the Swiss will be going, 'what's that noise?'

We call upon the nuclear-weapon states to immediately cease their plans to further invest in modernizing and extending the life span of their nuclear weapons and related facilities.

Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.

So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.

I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you.

The pursuit by the Iranian regime of nuclear weapons represents a direct threat to the entire international community, including to the United States and to the Persian Gulf region.

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

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.

If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today.

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.

Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent.

The gravest threat faced by the world is of an extremist group getting hold of nuclear weapons or materials.

My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.

Some people have said, in so many words, that I'm kind of wooly-headed in believing that the Iranians would see not having nuclear weapons as more in their security interest than not.

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.

...there is no safe level of exposure to ionizing radiation, and the search for quantifying such a safe level is in vain.

If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a coal burner. We simply have to lessen our consumption of fossil fuels.

I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.

My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.

The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.

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.

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

If the strong nuclear force were slightly weaker, multi-proton nuclei would not hold together. Hydrogen would be the only element in the universe.

North Korea. Not only does North Korean have nuclear weapons, but their leadership appears to not be rational.

Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.

The Framework Agreement is one of the best things the [Clinton] Administration has done because it stopped a nuclear weapons program in North Korea.

Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons.

We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive.

Nuclear weapons elimination will make all states and their people safer. It is time to assert our right to live in a nuclear weapons free world.

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack?

This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.