#weapon

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#dangerous #less #more #nuclear #nuclear weapons

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

#defense #direction #everything #goes #missile

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#human #human affairs #language #much #politicians

There's no way out," he announced with satisfaction, "and no amount of wishful dreaming will produce one. The demon won't go back in its bottle, the face-off is for ever, the embrace gets tighter and the toys cleverer with every generation, and there's no such thing for either side as enough security. Not for the main players, not for the nasty little newcomers who each year run themselves up a suitcase bomb and join the club. We get tired of believing that, because we're human. We may even con ourselves into believing the threat has gone away. It never will. Never, never, never." "So, who'll save us then, Walt?" Barley asked. "You and Nedsky?" "Vanity, if anything will, which I doubt," Walter retorted. "No leader wants to go down in history as the ass who destroyed his country in an afternoon. And funk, I suppose. Most of our gallant politicians do have a narcissistic objection to suicide, thank God. ↗

— John le Carré

#nuclear-weapons #russia #spy #war #dreams

The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don't want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#been #chinese #clear #iran #nuclear

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#arena #between #demonstrates #dramatically #entry

The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#cataclysmic #chemists #conceived #created #environment

There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#additional #already #everest #evidence #foot

The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon. ↗

— Dustin Diamond

#days #elegant #gruesome #had #honor

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror. ↗

— George Wald

#nothing #nuclear #nuclear weapons #offer #still