#nuclear weapon

Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

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To sum up, there is no evidence that a world without nuclear weapons would be a dangerous world. On the contrary, it would be a safer world, as I will show later. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

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But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

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We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence. ↗

— John Spratt

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The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern. ↗

— Mitchell Reiss

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It is my strong hope that an environment will be created in which both of our countries can cooperate for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons. ↗

— Yoshiro Mori

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Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who are in a security bind, if you like, or perceive themselves to be in security bind to look for acquisition of nuclear weapons. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

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Every day Saddam remains in power with chemical weapons, biological weapons, and the development of nuclear weapons is a day of danger for the United States. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

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And I thought about the psychic numbing involved in strategic projections of using hydrogen bombs or nuclear weapons of any kind. And I also thought about ways in which all of us undergo what could be called the numbing of everyday life. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

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