#weapons

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. ↗

— Red Auerbach

#always #basketball #catch #defense #developed

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#defeated #did #faith #like #sophisticated

There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people. ↗

— Harry Browne

#atomic bombs #bombs #drop #influence #innocent

The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted. ↗

— Walid Jumblatt

#blair #bush #consequence #destruction #doubted

The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#make #necessarily #number #objective #policy

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

— Edsger Dijkstra

#compete #experience #firstly #i #me

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#redeeming #socially #weapons

Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#british #destruction #french #further #germans

Had the United States not acted in Iraq, Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi would likely not have declared his weapons programs, submitted to international inspections and voluntarily dismantled its programs. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#declared #dismantled #had #his #inspections

Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news is that they have to drop it with a camel. ↗

— David Letterman

#bad news #bomb #camel #drop #experts