#nuclear weapon

The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#community #develop #fundamental #going #international

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

— Shimon Peres

#deterrent #intend #introduce #israel #look

In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#canada #discussion #late #major #nuclear

The most dangerous thing Iraq could have ever had was a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon Iraq was trying to build was not deliverable by bomb or ballistic missile. It was a large, bulky device that they hoped to bury and set off to let the world know they had a nuclear weapon. They never achieved that. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#ballistic #bomb #build #bury #could

If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region. ↗

— John Bolton

#arabia #certainly #egypt #iran #nuclear

The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all. ↗

— Charles Horner

#i #nuclear #nuclear weapon #obsolete #rid

I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#believed #biological #building #chemical #enough

We have an active program. We have nuclear weapons, we are a nuclear power. We have an advanced missiles program. ↗

— Ayub Khan

#advanced #missiles #nuclear #nuclear power #nuclear weapons

All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#be the first #declare #down #first #form

As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in the many wars that have taken place since 1945. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#died #how #many #millions #more