#weapons

Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#armies #could #defeat #dozen #enabled

The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#continuous #displaying #finds #get #israel

We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#also #commitment #courage #danger #day

We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— Edward Kennedy

#developing #hussein #known #many #mass

We have an active program. We have nuclear weapons, we are a nuclear power. We have an advanced missiles program. ↗

— Ayub Khan

#advanced #missiles #nuclear #nuclear power #nuclear weapons

We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#destruction #here #home #homelessness #mass

All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#be the first #declare #down #first #form

As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in the many wars that have taken place since 1945. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#died #how #many #millions #more

If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#deny #disaster #how #insecure #least

Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#assembly #called #elimination #first #general