#nuclear

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#beer #country #football #football team #helps

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#environmental #knowingly #nuclear #nuclear war #our

The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#even #facts #failed #field #focused

We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#delusion #destruction #gone #heads #i

I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison. ↗

— James Cronin

#did #direction #experimental #i #nuclear

Israel has a sizeable nuclear arsenal and could retaliate if it were attacked. ↗

— Stephen M. Walt

#attacked #could #israel #nuclear #retaliate

We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons. ↗

— George Wald

#nuclear #nuclear weapons #rid #those #weapons

If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#changes #conceive #could #fixed #forces

If we had made it clear from the very beginning that we were not going to tolerate another nuclear power on the face of the earth, and had done it in Korea, where we could have accomplished it militarily, if necessary, I would put a stop to it and would have put a stop to it there. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#another #beginning #clear #could #done

The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#believed #change #cold #cold war #could