Nuclear Arms Quotes:

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Fun, Humorous, Race, Rubble, Arms Race

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

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

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Life, God, Atomic Bomb, Nuclear Power

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

topic: Death, Military, History, Manhattan Project, Two Worlds

When faced with world problems - like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the arms trade - you may be among those who are overwhelmed by a feeling of "Help! What on earth can I, just one person, do about this?" Take heart. That's a sane response. It's the basis for a whole new attitude to world problems, where change at the level of the individual is more and more recognised as essential to change in huge world systems.

- Scilla Elworthy

topic: Attitude, Heart, Feelings, World Problems, New Attitude

But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.

- Joseph Rotblat

topic: Nuclear, Weapons, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Arms

I have met with political leaders, legislators, and diplomats, seeking the next steps to press in reducing and eliminating the nuclear threat in this century. I have participated in public coalitions developing programmes for action to combat the global rash of small arms. All are trying and making a difference.

- Michael Douglas

topic: Differences, Leader, Political, Nuclear Disarmament, Legislators

The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth. Nuclear arms cannot bolster the security of any nation because they represent a threat to the security of the human race. These incredibly destructive weapons are an affront to our common humanity, and the tens of billions of dollars that are dedicated to their development and maintenance should be used instead to alleviate human need and suffering

- Oscar Arias

topic: Race, Humanity, Suffering, Nuclear Disarmament, Affront

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

- Martin Amis

source: "Einstein's Monsters". Book by Martin Amis, Introduction: "Thinkability", April 30, 1987.

topic: Race, Nuclear, Arms, Arms Race, Nuclear Weapons

...convince all nuclear powers, including those which have been more reluctant up to now, of the necessity to respect the "vital interests" of all peoples and to become fully aware of the profound truth of the following conclusion which the United Nations approved by unanimity four years ago: "Mankind is confronted with a choice: we must halt the arms race and proceed to disarmament or face annihilation".

- Alfonso Garcia Robles

topic: Years, Race, Profound, Nuclear Disarmament, Profound Truth

So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride - the temptation blithely to declare yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Remarks at Annual Convention of National Association of Evangelicals, Orlando, Fla., 8 Mar. 1983 See George Lucas 11

topic: Struggle, Pride, Race, Arms Race, Remove

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

- Margaret Thatcher

topic: Military, History, World, World History, Nuclear Weapons

The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.

- Lord Mountbatten

source: Speech at Strasbourg, 11 May 1979, in P. Ziegler 'Mountbatten' (1985) ch. 52

topic: Military, War, Race, Nuclear Arms, Nuclear Arms Race

While it may be theoretically possible to demonstrate the risks inherent in any treaty... the far greater risk to our security are the risks of unrestricted testing, the risks of a nuclear arms race, the risks of new nuclear powers.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation, delivered 26 July 1963

topic: Race, Risk, May, Nuclear Bomb, Nuclear Arms

I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.

- Robert M. Gates

topic: Thinking, Iran, Race, Arms Race, Nuclear Arms

At a time when the threat of nuclear arms is again increasing, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to underline that this threat must be met through the broadest possible international cooperation. This principle finds its clearest expression today in the work of the IAEA and its director general. In the nuclear non-proliferation regime, it is the IAEA which ensures that nuclear energy is not misused for military purposes, and the director general has stood out as an unafraid advocate of new measures to strengthen that regime.

- Mohamed ElBaradei

topic: Military, Expression, Wish, Proliferation, Nuclear Energy

Israel is the number one rogue state threat to Middle Eastern peace with its nuclear arms and acts of outright aggression towards its peaceful neighbours Syria and Lebanon - and genocidal actions against the marginalised Palestinians of the West Bank - and Gaza in particular.

- Mohamed ElBaradei

source: "IAEA Chief: Israel the Real Rogue Nuclear State". glossynews.com. October 08, 2009.

topic: Israel, Numbers, Peaceful, Nuclear Arms

It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.

- Alva Myrdal

source: Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

topic: Country, Government, People, Nuclear Arms

And then you're going to have a president whose business empire depends on sort of delivering certain policies. For example, one thing that was quoted in the Newsweek report - that his [Donald Trump] pushing policies of nuclear arms for South Korea would actually improve his business network.

- Jill Stein

source: "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

topic: Korea, President, Arms, Nuclear Arms

As a military man who has given half a century of active service I say in all sincerity that the nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils because of the illusions they have generated. There are powerful voices around the world who still give credence to the old Roman precept - if you desire peace, prepare for war. This is absolute nuclear nonsense.

- Lord Mountbatten

source: Speech at Strasbourg, 11 May 1979, in P. Ziegler 'Mountbatten' (1985) ch. 52

topic: Powerful, Military, War, Military Man, Credence

That is potentially putting us all in the target hairs now is the reactivation of a new nuclear arms race. This arms race and this cold war is potentially hotter than it's been at any time in my lifetime.

- Jill Stein

source: Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

topic: War, Hair, Race, Arms Race, Nuclear Arms

I think it's yet to be seen how that is going to shape up. But I can tell we all know that President-elect [Donald] Trump doesn't like the Iran deal, thinks it's a terrible document, thinks it will create a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, which it already is beginning to do.

- Reince Priebus

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Thinking, Race, Iran, Arms Race, Nuclear Arms

A nuclear Iran is a threat to America's national security, and it is a threat to Israel's national security. We cannot afford to have a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region of the world.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: genius.com

topic: Race, Israel, Nuclear Iran, Nuclear Arms, Nuclear Arms Race

One of the most serious [challenges] is increased military spending and the cost of maintaining and developing nuclear arsenals. Enormous resources are being consumed for these purposes, when they could be spent on the development of peoples, especially those who are poorest. For this reason I firmly hope that, during the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference to be held this May in New York, concrete decisions will be made towards progressive disarmament, with a view to freeing our planet from nuclear arms

- Pope Benedict XVI

topic: Religious, New York, Military, Military Spending, Poorest

In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace require that all-whether those governments which openly or secretly possess nuclear arms, or those planning to acquire them- agree to change their course by clear and firm decision and strive for a progressive and concerted nuclear disarmament. The resources which would be saved could then be employed in projects of development capable of benefiting all their people, especially the poor.

- Pope Benedict XVI

topic: War, Government, People, Nuclear Disarmament, Firm Decisions

Nuclear arms is pretty scary because that could end the world. I'm more interested in that stuff than I am Bill Clinton. I mean, I think Bill Clinton is a good president.

- Stephen Dorff

topic: Mean, Thinking, Scary, Nuclear Arms

The nuclear arms race is like two people sitting in a pool of gasoline spending all their time making matches.

- John Denver

topic: Race, Two, People, Arms Race, Nuclear Arms

Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

topic: Race, Nuclear, Arms, Arms Race, Nuclear Arms

Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.133, Beacon Press

topic: Peace, Struggle, Creativity, Make Peace Not War, World Power

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Race, Two, Enemy, Petrol, Sagan

Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.

- Naoto Kan

topic: Technology, Men, Nuclear, Peaceful Coexistence, Coexistence

Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time. If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.

- Alan Cranston

topic: Running, Defense, Nuclear, Running Out Of Time, Nuclear Disarmament

My activities, for which I gratefully accept this Award, are today what they have been for over thirty-five years and will be for the rest of my life: to counter governmental secrecy about the nuclear arms race that threatens the survival of life on earth; and to help build a world movement that will prevent a first use since Nagasaki of nuclear explosions, prevent or end interventions that could lead to such an event, and bring about a world free of nuclear weapons.

- Daniel Ellsberg

topic: Awards, Race, Years, Arms Race, Nuclear Arms

[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency to escape the nuclear danger that some of its parents felt, neither has it developed the deep attachment to nuclear arms also often found among their parents, including most of the governing class. ... The call for abolition should therefore be, among other things, a call from an older generation to younger one.

- Jonathan Schell

topic: War, Attachment, Class, Older Generation, Coming Of Age

I am patient and am waiting for a profound revolution in the consciousness of the Israelis. The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace.

- Mahmoud Darwish

topic: Strong, Israel, Profound, Nuclear Arms

But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War.

- 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: War, Heart, Race, Iron Curtain, Arms Race

I'm afraid there's a big confusion in the world between nuclear power and nuclear arms.

- Abdus Salam

topic: Confusion, Nuclear, World, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Arms

It's a deal that will lead to a nuclear Iran, an Israel that will be less safe and secure, and a much more dangerous Middle East. Let's ask it: Hillary Clinton, as an inept negotiator of the worst nuclear arms deal in American history. Is she guilty or not guilty?

- Chris Christie

source: "Chris Christie: 'It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now'". Chris Christie's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

topic: Israel, Nuclear Iran, Safe, Nuclear Arms

When I was secretary of state, I had to be responsible for getting a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia through the Senate. We needed, I think, 13 Republican votes to get to 67. I started working in the summer making just endless phone calls, meetings, bringing experts to talk to Republicans, and then we finally got it done at the end of the year 2010. So I'm excited to roll up my sleeves and get into the business of solving problems and making progress together.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Summer, Thinking, Phones, Nuclear Arms

I agree that we need a working relationship with Russia to deescalate a nuclear arms race, to resolve the crisis in Syria.

- Katrina vanden Heuvel

topic: Russia, Race, Arms, Arms Race, Nuclear Arms

Specifically in reference to Iran, Donald Trump will not be able to renegotiate the nuclear arms pact. His attempt to do so will alienate all the European powers involved and will cost a number of US companies some very lucrative contracts. It is a losing proposition for him and for the US. Much more so than for Iran, who will turn more and more to Russia and China as trading partners.

- Lawrence Davidson

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Russia, Iran, Numbers, Trading Partners, Nuclear Arms

We shall continue, in this era of negotiation, to work for the limitation of nuclear arms and to reduce the danger of confrontation between the great powers.

- Richard M. Nixon

source: Second Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1973

topic: Nuclear, Arms, Eras, Nuclear Arms

The proposed liberal solution was always negotiation. Just as they believed in nuclear arms negotiations for their own sake, they believe in a "peace process" without regard to what its consequences might be....It was impossible for any peace plan to fail in their eyes, since lack of progress was nearly always interpreted as evidence that new talks were now "urgent".

- Mona Charen

topic: Nuclear Arms

Ronad Reagan might go down to history as a man who in the end of this administration brought about the first nuclear arms reduction treaty, the first arms reduction treaty at all in the modern world, and this is quite something.

- Helmut Schmidt

topic: Men, Might, Firsts, Nuclear Arms

Our friends can't trust us anymore. You know, Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them. We won't even give them offensive weapons.

- Benjamin Carson

source: Source: www.cbsnews.com

topic: Ukraine, Giving, Understanding, Nuclear Arms

The alternative, no limits on Iran's nuclear program, no inspections, an Iran that's closer to a nuclear weapon, the risk of regional nuclear arms race, and the greater risk of war - all that would endanger our [American] security.

- Barack Obama

source: Press Conference by the President, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 15, 2015.

topic: War, Race, Iran, Arms Race, Nuclear Arms

Without a deal [with Iran], the international sanctions regime will unravel with little ability to reimpose them. With this deal, we have the possibility of peacefully resolving a major threat to regional and international security. Without a deal, we risk even more war in the Middle East and other countries in the region would feel compelled to pursue their own nuclear programs, threatening a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region in the world.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Country, War, Race, Arms Race, Regions

Nuclear arms kill many people all at once, but other weapons kill many people, little by little, every day, everywhere in the world.

- Oscar Arias

topic: People, World, Arms, Nuclear Arms