Nuclear Quotes

The greatest threat that the world faces, the greatest national security threat is a nuclear Iran.

Barack Obama has injected fresh momentum into efforts - stalled for a decade - to bring about nuclear disarmament.

Iran has the technology to produce the highly enriched uranium, which is not automatically meaning nuclear weapon.

We believe US threats of an approaching World War III and their use of Iran's nuclear issue as an excuse is another form of American insanity.

Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.

When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.

This quake, tsunami and the nuclear accident are the biggest crises for Japan [in decades] ... We will continue to handle it in a state of maximum alert.

I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear. I seek a society non-reliant on nuclear energy, a society that can do without nuclear energy, and Japan can prove a role model. It’s possible.

While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.

Energy security based on clean & reliable sources is essential for India's future. Nuclear energy has a key role in India's energy strategy.

By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.

I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.

Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but dont rise to the level of nuclear.

The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.

The civilized world must remain united and vigilant against the rogue state's development of a nuclear arsenal. We will never accept a nuclear North Korea.

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

I don't think that the United States cares. They just assume that North Korea will soon have nuclear weapons.

I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example - must have realized a nuclear war would be a hard thing to clean up after.

Everybody wants clean, safe energy. Some people think nuclear is the way to go. Some people think coal is the way to go. Some people think wind is the way to go. And there's always balances on that.

America is the strongest empire ever, with the largest military. We spend ten times what the Russians do. And they have equal nuclear ability as we do, because they're precise.

Nuclear arms kill many people all at once, but other weapons kill many people, little by little, every day, everywhere in the world.

We have built something [a nuclear stockpile] bigger than we can drive.

I don't wanna die in a nuclear war, I want to sail away to a distant shore, and make like an apeman.

We're out of nuclear-crisis mode and into normal, day-to-day crisis mode.

If the nuclear program is indeed meant only for civil purposes, then it is wrong to impose sanctions.

The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.

You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.

We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.

In our age of nuclear and biological weapons and the ever more efficient exploitation of nature, the mix of high technology and an ethos of domination could take us to an evolutionary dead end.

We shall continue, in this era of negotiation, to work for the limitation of nuclear arms and to reduce the danger of confrontation between the great powers.

Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.

Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there were in fact no weapons of nuclear - weapons of mass destruction.

It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the Soviet's three hundred.

Everybody says, "Well, if it's a democracy, let them have nuclear weapons." America is the only country that has ever used nuclear weapons. We're the only ones, this democracy, our great democracy.

If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn't be sleeping in this house tonight. (When asked about continued presence of Soviet nuclear submarines along US coastlines)

For the eight years I was president I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind.

Here's why nuclear defense makes sense. And I know something about this. A missile can take an airplane out of the air. A better missile can take a missile out of the air.

I asked Secretary [Robert] Gates, what did they get in return for giving up the nuclear shield of Poland and the Czech Republic? And you know what his answer was? Nada. They got nothing.

I never turn on the news over the weekend, short of a nuclear detonation somewhere. I just don't. I don't learn anything from it anymore.

You don't need to worry about Donald Trump and nuclear weapons. You need to worry about Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. They have authorized nuclear weapons for Iran.

If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.

Nuclear weaponry, of course, would be the be-all, end-all of just too many people in too many parts of our planet.

Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?" "Poisoned peanut butter." "Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear peanut butter.

Today's concrete-pouring ceremony of Chashma-2 marks yet another landmark in Pak-China relations and a milestone in the history of nuclear technology in Pakistan.

Maybe the words are the same, but the time is not the same. Iranians weren't working on achieving nuclear energy.

I'm worried just as much about Donald Trump as that crazy guy in North Korea - and he has a nuclear code. I'm worrying about that.

Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely.

"Sooner or later disasters such as an asteroid collision or a nuclear war could wipe us all out, But once we spread out into space and establish independent colonies, our future should be safe."

The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.

Well, a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East would be a wonderful thing.