#nuclear

Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#canada #conspicuous #dangers #fallout #incoming

After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#before #billion #chemical #elements #even

But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy Agency, played hide-and-seek with the international community, and rejected all offers of co-operation from the U.S., the EU, and others. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#atomic #atomic energy #beyond #civilian #co-operation

Our bottom line, if you want to call it a red line, president's bottom line has been that Iran will not acquire a nuclear weapon and we will take no option off the table to ensure that it does not acquire a nuclear weapon, including the military option. ↗

— Susan Rice

#been #bottom #bottom line #call #does

We are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm. ↗

— Susan Rice

#arsenals #harm #nuclear #nuclear arsenals #others

The planet's spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while these people roll these machines with rubber tires over this hard surface that we've laid down over the planet so that we can easily move ourselves back and forth. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#back #down #easily #explosion #forth

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#common enemy #emotional #enemy #humanity #many

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

#aggravate #also #between #cases #create

Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you've got a homegrown attack or you have a nuclear explosion in the air that is not a test somewhere. Those are still the biggest threats out there. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#attack #biggest #explosion #frustration #given