Nuclear Quotes

Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.

In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself.

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.

We will stand mighty for peace and freedom and maintain a strong defense against terror and destruction. Our children will sleep free from the threat of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons.

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.

For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.

Let them bomb Japan with that nasty missile. Their missile cannot load a nuclear warhead.

In order to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear country you have to introduce a system of verification and inspection.

The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.

There is little doubt that Iran is on a mission to rebuild its nuclear weapons and use that capability to wreak havoc and destruction on Israel and others throughout the world.

What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I'm just noting the timing, here.

Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing finality perpetual night will surely fall.

And, by the way, how come all the people who were so in favor of unilateral nuclear disarmament are so opposed to unilateral protection against nukes?

What Korea and the U.S. both ultimately seek to achieve is the dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear program.

A nuclear weapon of some dimension, whether it's actually a nuclear weapon, or a dirty bomb, or some kind of radiological device. Yes, I think it's probably a near thing.

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.

I do believe that India is a unique case. And you need I think exceptional skills I think to incorporate Indian into the world nuclear order.

China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.

The only countries that are outside of [ Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty] are Israel, Pakistan, India, and North Korea withdrew in the last few years.

Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament.

A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.

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.

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained.

They [China] have indicated that they’re trying to develop nuclear capability and they want to develop more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to consider them a military threat.

When we succeeded in winning the Cold War, escaping a nuclear Armageddon that could have killed us all, the U.S. inevitably had a serious problem about an encore: what now for our place in the world?

I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

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

The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

Nuclear apocalypse-who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops.

Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs.

Surely something must be terribly wrong with a man who seems to be far more concerned with Jews building houses in Israel than with Muslims building a nuclear bomb in Iran.

While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare

Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.

Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.

Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind.

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

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

The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.

I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now.

The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.

The era of nuclear terrorism has arrived.

There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.

The real threat to U.S. military power is nuclear proliferation, because if every little country has nuclear weapons it becomes very tricky for the United States to engage in military action.

The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.