#nuclear weapon

Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we have not received any such information from our partners as yet. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Susan Rice

#here #korea #larger #north #north korea

The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#acquire #always #cloud #gun #here

We've already seen proliferation. We started it with Britain, then France. Then we benignly let the Israelis do it. The Pakistanis and the Indians have recently done it. The Chinese have nuclear weapons. ↗

— William Odom

#britain #chinese #done #france #indians

The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don't want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#been #chinese #clear #iran #nuclear

In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#difference #different #every #kind #lead

My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained. ↗

— Herman Kahn

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

— Herman Kahn

#intrinsically #moral #more #most #neither

The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own. ↗

— Herman Kahn

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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. ↗

— Bruce Kent

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