#weapon

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery. ↗

— Stendhal

#close #feminine #found #had #himself

We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#call #case #cloud #committed #different

Over any such tangled wave of problems the S-1 secret would be dominant and yet we will not know until after that time probably, until after that meeting, whether this is a weapon in our hands or not. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#any #dominant #hands #know #meeting

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#believe #change #change the world #i #immediate

Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#between #billion #canada #cent #dollars

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action. ↗

— Harry Bridges

#fight #political #weapon

Saddam Hussein has openly admitted to the rest of the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. He used those weapons to kill his own people. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#destruction #had #his #hussein #kill

So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#discussed #dozens #examples #intentions #knew

The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200. ↗

— Mordechai Vanunu

#amount #between #came #cia #could

One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI). ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#counter #destruction #efforts #important #initiative