#nuclear

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#nuclear #nuclear power #plant #power #power plant

The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use it. ↗

— Peter King

#deterrent #going #idea #nuclear #system

But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#nuclear #nuclear powers #powers #still #their

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war. ↗

— William Odom

#always #consideration #few #firing #go

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

— Mitchell Reiss

#concern #current #even #material #nuclear

In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on and uninhabited planet. ↗

— William L. Shirer

#nuclear-weapons #war #weaponry #age

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads? ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#age

People who worry that nuclear weaponry will one day fall in the hands of the Arabs, fail to realize that the Islamic bomb has been dropped already, it fell the day MUHAMMED (pbuh) was born. ↗

— - Dr. Joseph Adam Pearson.

#amazing #arabs #atomic #atomic-bomb #beautiful

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#nuclear #thinking #change

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#colonizer #danger #fear #folly #humanity