Nuclear Quotes

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. (Frank Zappa)
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. View quote
Margaret Mead
I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use. View quote
Hashemi Rafsanjani
It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it, necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives. View quote
Robert McNamara
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent. View quote
Terry Pratchett
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic. View quote
Barack Obama
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. View quote
Ronald Reagan
The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion. View quote
Alva Myrdal
Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do. View quote
Stephen Hawking
While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble. (Jane Jacobs)
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power. View quote
John Cheever
Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth. View quote
Dave Barry
The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nuclear arms kill many people all at once, but other weapons kill many people, little by little, every day, everywhere in the world. View quote
Oscar Arias Sanchez
I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act. View quote
Joseph Rotblat
But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War. View quote
Joseph Rotblat
The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions. View quote
Joseph Rotblat
Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up. View quote
Danny DeVito
All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial. View quote
Alva Myrdal
It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them. (Alva Myrdal)
It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished. View quote
Eisaku Sato
It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people. View quote
Eisaku Sato
I make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements. View quote
Anna Lindh