#weapons

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons. ↗

— Andrei Sakharov

#develop #group #i #included #nuclear

The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen. ↗

— Girolamo Savonarola

#fishermen #force #glory #his #knows

The Iraqi military are able to deploy these weapons within 45 minutes of a decision to do so. ↗

— John Scarlett

#decision #deploy #iraqi #military #minutes

Weapons are created to be used. There's no place for the weak on this earth. ↗

— Curt Siodmak

#earth #place #used #weak #weapons

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

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

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

Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#compete #experience #firstly #i #me

I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as the y seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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