#weapons

Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#conflicts #conventional #dealt #disputes #except

If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long. ↗

— John Sununu

#danger #direct #long #pose #present

When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption. ↗

— John Sununu

#biological #biological weapons #chemical #destruction #element

We've already seen proliferation. We started it with Britain, then France. Then we benignly let the Israelis do it. The Pakistanis and the Indians have recently done it. The Chinese have nuclear weapons. ↗

— William Odom

#britain #chinese #done #france #indians

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#any #costly #imagine #infinitely #iranian

There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#destruction #hussein #involved #mass #saddam

The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern. ↗

— Mitchell Reiss

#concern #current #even #material #nuclear

They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons. ↗

— Douglas Feith

#between #biological #biological weapons #bomb #chemical

That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#soldiers #war #weapons #death

The thought that human beings are considering saving lives by killing millions of their fellow human beings is so preposterous that the words 'saving life' have lost all of their meaning. One of the most tragic facts of our century is that this 'No' to nuclear weapons has been spoken so seldom, so softly, and by so few. ↗

— Henri J. M. Houwen

#peacemaking #life