#nuclear weapon

The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid. ↗

— Hans Blix

#any #apartheid #because #cold #cold war

Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#day #decade #forward #go #going

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. ↗

— John Bruton

#capabilities #country #demand #eliminate #increase

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

#even #far #korea #like #more

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#arena #between #demonstrates #dramatically #entry

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. ↗

— Marilyn French

#any #bolts #cars #children #design

India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#dream #india #live #nuclear #nuclear weapons

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons. ↗

— Andrei Sakharov

#develop #group #i #included #nuclear

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

— Jenny Shipley

#been #begin #destruction #gradually #may

We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#call #case #cloud #committed #different