Nuclear Quotes

Atoms for Peace

Einstein’s revolutionary theories helped unravel the secrets of the cosmos. They also led to the atomic bomb.

The nuclear industry in America was built on the back of the Defense Department.

I don't know why people are always afraid of a nuclear blast.

I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

What we wanted to tell North Korea is, look, we have told you we are not looking for regime change; we are not looking for war. But don't give us a reason to get involved in any of this, and so we're going to go ahead and push for a strong resolution against North Korea.

I say the word N-U-C-L-E-R the same way that George W. Bush says it.

American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing start-up in midst of the Carter administration.

Peace and stability cannot be achieved by means of nuclear weapons.

If Americans are entitled to hit Iraq unilaterally, then why isn't Russia entitled to the same with respect to Georgia? Why is China not entitled to the same with respect to some other neighboring country which, according to Chinese views, may be supporting insurrection in Tibet or Shenyang? Why, say, India is not entitled to hit Pakistan, which openly supports terrorists in Kashmir and which has nuclear weapons, and which has a very fragile domestic situation under which fundamentalists any day can come to power

If we take into account the existence of our planet, we have to recognise that we are guests that spend a short and very determined period in this world, and all we leave behind is nuclear waste.

If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

Chernobyl has been a negative part of Ukraine's brand. The time has come to change this.

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations.

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

If France can produce 80 percent of its electricity with nuclear power, why can't we?

Force does not heal old wounds; it opens new ones.

Politicians - well, first of all, they should get rid of nuclear weapons, I think.

Before I even came into office, I said that preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon was a priority.

We would certainly welcome the recipient nation to put their inspectors on our shores, if they wanted to make that investment to help protect that shipment that is outgoing.

The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.