Nuclear Quotes

It never occurred to me that anyone would name a nuclear missile "Peacekeeper". It never occurred to me that thousands of people would be killed in the name of "peace-keeping".

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

The era of nuclear terrorism has arrived.

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.

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

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

The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin.

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.

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.

It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs.

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States.

The danger of terrorists and rogue states is compounded by the proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons.

Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheaper and are getting rapidly more so.

The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power.

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

It's crazy that in a country where schools are falling apart, we're spending $20 billion on nuclear weapons.

So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.

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.

I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.

The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.

Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.

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.

We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species? Who speaks for Earth?

The United States will do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

What are the implications of a China that may be on nuclear parity with the United States?

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

The more patient we are, the closer the Iranians get to a nuclear weapon.

Solar, for example - which has typically been thought of as so expensive - is cheap when compared with, for example, the cost of cleaning up the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Gulf.

The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

If nuclear energy is used for the sake of humanity, then I say yes. But if it is used destructively, then no.

Both [Donald] Trump and Hillary [Clinton] want bigger military budgets and Hillary supports President Obama's one trillion dollar expenditure to so-called upgrade nuclear weapons. P

Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.

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

Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face.

We cannot tolerate comments of such hatred, such anti-Semitism, such intolerance. And these comments are all the more troubling given that we know of Iran's nuclear ambitions.

We must work toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons, and an end to policies which cause this country to move toward the weaponization of space.

We know he's been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.

I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons.

The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.

Impulsiveness is not a trait one would choose for a person with the power to launch the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

I think that once the nuclear alternative happens, it's over. At the same time, we have to be prepared.

The two countries [Pakistan and India] have already come close to nuclear confrontation twice and this could get worse. So dealing with the relationship with India is extremely important.

I see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential to make life unlivable on this planet.

As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as "necessary" in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never be gotten rid of.

Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.

Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.

It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows.

It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.

Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.