http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes NWNM Radioactive Quotes 10 30 2008 @ 1:00 pm "[it is] counter-intuitive to consider replacing weapons that have been extensively tested with warheads that have never been tested.
" http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#139 10 16 2008 @ 11:47 am "The nation’s nuclear weapons labs have long been lobbying for a new challenge to lure a new generation of nuclear scientists. But nuclear weapons cannot be a jobs project... Neither presidential candidate has categorically ruled out a new weapon. They both should. If the existing stockpile is “safe, secure and reliable,” there is no reason to build a new nuclear weapon." http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#138 08 06 2008 @ 1:53 pm "This is the moment when we must renew the goal of a world without nuclear weapons. The two superpowers that faced each other across the wall of this city came too close too often to destroying all we have built and all that we love. With that wall gone, we need not stand idly by and watch the further spread of the deadly atom. It is time to secure all loose nuclear materials; to stop the spread of nuclear weapons; and to reduce the arsenals from another era. This is the moment to begin the work of seeking the peace of a world without nuclear weapons.
" http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#137 07 10 2008 @ 7:50 am "The equation that should inform policy is this: More atomic bombs or warheads in more hands equals more chances for them to be lost, stolen or used in anger. Each nation has an interest in preventing this deadly progression, even if it means rolling back its own holdings of nuclear weapons. But it is the United States and Russia, above all, which have the power to change expectations." http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#136 06 18 2008 @ 10:02 am "the bigger issue is why the Pentagon still needs to keep so many nuclear weapons in its inventory nearly two decades after the Cold War--particularly when just about everyone in the military believes they present minimal strategic utility" http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#135 05 21 2008 @ 1:25 pm "But we have always built nuclear weapons with the understanding we're building them so that they can never be used. And the risk is not so much that they wouldn't work. The risk is that they would be used and would work." http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#134 03 28 2008 @ 10:46 am "Before it looks at new missions or expanding existing mission, the federal government must meet and fund its cleanup commitments to the people of New Mexico. It is unconscionable that the DOE and it’s contractors at LANL are even considering funding additional pit production while at the same time refusing to put the required funding towards cleanup… NMED, and the State of New Mexico, are gravely concerned that increased pit production at LANL will only further divert needed funding and management attention from these crucial cleanup activities. For this reason, we strongly oppose any increases in pit production capability, or any expansion of LANL’s mission in general." http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#133 07 20 2007 @ 8:57 am "New Mexico’s economy won’t be dented — but neither will the thick skulls of the hydrogen-bomber bent on churning out even more Cold War weaponry." http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#132 07 06 2007 @ 8:56 am "By day this guy was entrusted with protecting our nation's most guarded secrets, by night he was peddling dope. Not good." http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#131 06 26 2007 @ 11:07 am "If we want our children and grandchildren to ever see the mountaintop, [the global eradication of nuclear weapons] our generation must begin to answer this question." http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#130 06 15 2007 @ 9:44 am "This facility's mind-bogglingly poor track record makes me repeat my question: What do we do at Los Alamos that we cannot do elsewhere?" http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#129 04 10 2007 @ 10:34 am "Switching from coal to nukes is like giving up smoking and taking up crack." http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#128 03 15 2007 @ 10:23 am "This is not the end of the story by any means, this is a very big rebellion ... in favour of peace." http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#127 01 22 2007 @ 2:56 pm "Why do we have to have this lab?" http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#126 01 22 2007 @ 1:31 pm "We never want to go down that path of lies and betrayal again." http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#125