Nuclear Weapons

If in the words

If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided ‘at all costs’. what is the point of having one? Enoch Powell

Countries are making nuclear

Countries are making nuclear weapons like there is no tomorrow. Emo Philips

The American government is

The American government is making nuclear weapons like there’s no tomorrow. Emo Philips

In England The Day After, though unpopular with viewers, seems to have confirmed the average Englishman’s mindless prejudice against Kansas. Shortly after the film portrayed that state being turned into an overused barbecue pit by nuclear weapons, support for British nuclear weapons rose a full percentage point. Emmett Tyrrell

Family and work. Family

Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other. Ellen Gilchrist

It is the earnest

It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished. Eisaku Sato

There is a Western

There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons. Ehud Olmert

If Saddam\\’s regime and

If Saddam’s regime and survival are threatened [by invasion], he will have nothing to lose, and may use everything at his disposal… If weapons of mass destruction land on Israeli soil, killing innocent civilians, the experts I have consulted believe Israel will retaliate, and possibly with nuclear weapons… Nor can we rule out the possibility … Read more

There are nuclear weapons

There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn’t take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems. Edward James Olmos

On May 15, 1957

On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. … It was at this time that the idea of the scientists’ petition against nuclear weapons tests was born. That evening we discussed it at length after dinner at my house and various ones of those present were scribbling … Read more