Nuclear Proliferation Quotes:

[Donald Trump] said that he would encourage Japan and South Korea to develop their own nuclear arsenals to lower U.S. costs, and then has denied that he would encourage nuclear proliferation to allies (although he did say so).

- David Krieger

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Korea, Japan, Nuclear Proliferation, South Korea

Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

topic: War, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Proliferation, Miscalculations, Armament

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Noam Chomsky (2007). “Interventions”, p.142, City Lights Publishers

topic: Use, Nuclear Proliferation, Violence, Proliferation

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Peace, Military, Causes Of War, World War 2

If the militarily most powerful and least threatened states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.

- Joseph Rotblat

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

topic: Country, Powerful, Insecure, Proliferation, Nuclear Proliferation

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

topic: Lying, Heart, Thinking, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Proliferation

Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.

- Timothy Garton Ash

source: "New world disorder" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

topic: Wmd, Nuclear, Danger, Proliferation, Nuclear Proliferation

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

- Susan Rice

topic: Korea, Risk, Weapons, Proliferation, Nuclear Proliferation

Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme.

- Vladimir Putin

topic: Russia, Mass Destruction, Nuclear, Proliferation, Nuclear Proliferation

Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.

- Kofi Annan

source: Kofi Atta Annan, United Nations. Dept. of Public Information (2000). “"Wir die Völker" : die Rolle der Vereinten Nationen im 21. Jahrhundert ; [ein neues Jahrhundert - neue Herausforderungen]”, p.53, United Nations Publications

topic: Commitment, Nuclear Disarmament, Political, Reducing, Proliferation

Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea.

- John Bruton

topic: Korea, Nuclear, Weapons, Proliferation, Nuclear Proliferation

The time has come for those nations that rely on the force of nuclear armaments to respectfully heed the voices of peace-loving people, not least the atomic bomb survivors, to strive in good faith for nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, and to advance towards the complete abolishment of all such weapons.

- Iccho Itoh

topic: Voice, People, Survivor, Nuclear Disarmament, Good Faith

The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

topic: War, Nuclear Disarmament, Nukes, Miscalculations, Nuclear Proliferation

It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people.

- Eisaku Sato

topic: Government, Office, People, Proliferation, Nuclear Proliferation

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

- Jacques Chirac

topic: Defense, Nuclear, Weapons, Proliferation, Missile Defense

Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

- Joseph Rotblat

source: 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

topic: Commitment, People, Desire, Proliferation, Nuclear Disarmament

Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.

- Dianne Feinstein

topic: Race, Effort, Nuclear, Proliferation, Nuclear Proliferation

For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states undertook, which was to work towards disarmament and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, is something that manifestly serves our national security interests.

- Susan Rice

topic: Nuclear, Weapons, United States, Proliferation, Nuclear Disarmament

We have been led to believe that we have come a long way toward world nuclear disarmament. But that is not the case. Our government is not doing all that it could. We must urge our leaders to fulfill the obligations of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The United States must assume world leadership to end once and for all the threat of nuclear war. It is our moral responsibility.

- Harrison Ford

topic: War, Believe, Responsibility, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Proliferation

The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.

- David Miliband

topic: Christian, Climate, East, Nuclear Proliferation

China is a major power in the Pacific and I think we are dealing with some common threats in that region: the whole issue of Korea and the stability of Korea, the whole issue of nuclear proliferation, the whole issue of providing free access to our ships that are operating in that area.

- Leon Panetta

topic: Thinking, Issues, Korea, Nuclear Proliferation

The way the United States intelligence community operates is it doesn't limit itself to the protection of the homeland. It doesn't limit itself to countering terrorist threats, countering nuclear proliferation. It's also used for economic espionage, for political spying to gain some knowledge of what other countries are doing.

- Edward Snowden

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Country, Community, Political, Espionage, Proliferation

The next most dangerous thing [after nuclear proliferation] is probably... global warming, and then, right behind that are overpopulation -- we need to get serious about family planning-and trying to alleviate poverty, to get clean, renewable energy, probably with solar panels to the billion and a half people in the world who don't have access to electricity.

- Ted Turner

topic: People, Trying, Serious, Nuclear Proliferation, Solar Panels

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.

- Immanuel Wallerstein

topic: Country, Real, Military, Proliferation, Military Action

We [The United States] should be prepared to launch a pre-emption strike against Iran to eliminate their nuclear capability.

- Fred Thompson

source: "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. November 4, 2007.

topic: Support, Nuclear, Proliferation, Nuclear Proliferation

Ronald Reagan said something really interesting about nuclear proliferation back in the 1980s. He said the problem with nuclear proliferation is some fool or maniac could trigger a catastrophic event and I think that Donald Trump is exactly who governor Reagan warned about.

- Tim Kaine

source: Source: www.politico.com

topic: Thinking, Interesting, Events, Nuclear Proliferation

Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the momentum of the historical process, to halt nuclear proliferation, germ warfare, infantile 19th century politics, all these things. It cannot be accomplished through a frontal assault upon it by political means.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Mean, Political, Historical, Infantile, Nuclear Proliferation

We can talk about the economy, we can talk about Social Security. The biggest problem this world has is nuclear proliferation. And we have a country out there, North Korea, which is sort of wacko, which is not a bunch of dummies. And they are going out and they are developing nuclear weapons. And they're not doing it because they're having fun doing it. They're doing it for a reason. And wouldn't it be good to sit down and really negotiate something and ideally negotiate? Now, if that negotiation doesn't work, you'd better solve the problem now than solve it later.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Country, Fun, World, Dummy, Nuclear Proliferation

Nuclear proliferation is on the rise. Equipment, material and training were once largely inaccessible. Today, however, there is a sophisticated worldwide network that can deliver systems for producing material usable in weapons.

- Mohamed ElBaradei

source: "Saving Ourselves From Self-Destruction". www.nytimes.com. February 12, 2004.

topic: Training, Weapons, Today, Inaccessible, Proliferation

For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda.

- Barack Obama

topic: America, Nuclear, Agendas, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Terrorism

The greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists and nuclear proliferation to an increasing number of states.

- Barack Obama

topic: Numbers, Nuclear, Terrorism, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Terrorism

The single biggest threat that we face is a nuclear weapon or some weapon of mass destruction. What that means is that we have to be extraordinarily aggressive and vigilant in controlling nuclear proliferation.

- Barack Obama

source: Barack Obama during debate with Republican former Ambassador Alan Keyes, www.keyesarchives.com. October 12, 2004.

topic: Mean, Mass Destruction, Nuclear, Nuclear Proliferation

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

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

topic: Thinking, Mind, Pandemics, Proliferation, Nuclear Proliferation

Three year sof unconditional MFN have not lead to any subtantial improvement in human rights, trade and nuclear proliferation practice of the Chinese government. In addition to the trade barriers, China has marred our trade relationship wit prison labor or export and other unfair trade practices.

- Nancy Pelosi

topic: Rights, Government, Years, Nuclear Proliferation, Fair Trade

The truth emerging from this scattered picture of nuclear proliferation is simple: there is a stronger chance of a nuclear bomb being used now than at almost any point in the Cold War.

- Johann Hari

source: "Will we wake from our nuclear coma?". JohannHari.com, October 20, 2004.

topic: War, Simple, Stronger, Proliferation, Nuclear Proliferation

I'm worried about the world because of nuclear proliferation.

- Michael Bloomberg

source: Source: asia.nikkei.com

topic: Nuclear, World, Worried, Proliferation, Nuclear Proliferation

That is why, as one who values the U.S.-Israel relationship, and loves Israel, I was near tears throughout the Prime Minister’s speech — saddened by the insult to the intelligence of the United States as part of the P5 +1 nations, and saddened by the condescension toward our knowledge of the threat posed by Iran and our broader commitment to preventing nuclear proliferation.

- Nancy Pelosi

source: "Pelosi: Netanyahu speech 'insulting to the intelligence of the United States'" by Lauren French, www.politico.com. March 3, 2015.

topic: Commitment, Love Is, Israel, Nuclear Proliferation

At this crucial crossroads of history, we join to call on the world to recognize that violence begets violence; that nuclear proliferation benefits no one; that we can, we will, and we must find other ways to protect ourselves, our nations and our future: for it is not sufficient to have peace in our time, but, instead, we must leave a peaceful world to our children.

- David Saperstein

topic: Religious, Children, Peaceful, Nuclear Proliferation

For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim to being the only universal framework for moral wisdom. As a result, the most powerful societies on early spend their time debating issues like gay marriage when they should be focused on problems like nuclear proliferation, genocide, energy security, climate change, poverty, and failing schools.

- Sam Harris

topic: Powerful, School, Ignorance, Moral Relativism, Nuclear Proliferation

When the next big problem comes online, be it the Euro crisis, nuclear proliferation, an overstretched Internet, a killer flu, or any of the other possibilities I consider in X-Events, we will suffer a complexity overload.

- John L. Casti

source: "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

topic: Euro Crisis, Suffering, Events, Nuclear Proliferation, Big Problems

Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed because [only] he can stop nuclear proliferation, [only] he [can launch] an operation in the tribal areas. So he manipulates and dangles some kind of carrot in front of the world all the time. This is not good for the people [of Pakistan], and I think the world has got it all wrong.

- Benazir Bhutto

source: Interview With Javed Soomro, newslinemagazine.com. April 2005.

topic: Thinking, People, Dying, Proliferation, Nuclear Proliferation