http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes NWNM Radioactive Quotes 01 29 2010 @ 1:16 pm "If the existing nuclear countries cannot develop some restraints among themselves, in other words, if nothing fundamental changes, then I would expect the use of nuclear weapons in some 10-year period is very possible,” says former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the film. “Once nuclear weapons are used, we will be driven to take global measures to prevent it. Why don’t we do it now?
" http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#159 01 25 2010 @ 2:17 pm "...regional nuclear war between India and Pakistan could blot out the sun, starving much of the human race...The only way to eliminate the possibility of climatic catastrophe is to eliminate the nuclear weapons." http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#158 11 16 2009 @ 1:59 pm "Nuclear weapons is a dying business. Northern New Mexico’s best wealth producing employer is going to have to reinvent itself or decline." http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#157 09 25 2009 @ 11:34 am "First, we must stop the spread of nuclear weapons, and seek the goal of a world without them... If we fail to act, we will invite nuclear arms races in every region, and the prospect of wars and acts of terror on a scale that we can hardly imagine. A fragile consensus stands in the way of this frightening outcome – the basic bargain that shapes the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty. It says that all nations have the right to peaceful nuclear energy; that nations with nuclear weapons have the responsibility to move toward disarmament; and those without them have the responsibility to forsake them... America will keep our end of the bargain... We will complete a Nuclear Posture Review that opens the door to deeper cuts, and reduces the role of nuclear weapons." http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#156 08 25 2009 @ 11:55 am "I've titled this speech "The Long Road from Prague." And it really is a long road to a nuclear free world. There will be obstacles along the way; the journey will be difficult, and require enormous efforts to address the insecurities in many regions around the world that may lead some to seek nuclear weapons. But it is a journey that we must take." http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#155 08 25 2009 @ 11:54 am "The United States and other nuclear weapon states bear a special responsibility under the NPT to pursue nuclear disarmament. President Obama has described his agenda for meeting this responsibility, and we will pursue it with resolve. But non-nuclear weapon states bear no less responsibility to work constructively and actively to prevent further proliferation and help create the conditions for nuclear disarmament efforts to succeed. The responsibility does not end with their decision to forswear a nuclear weapons capability and to accept IAEA safeguards to verify their commitments. It must continue through the participation of those non-nuclear weapon states in rigorous, collective efforts to prevent other countries from acquiring nuclear weapons." http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#154 08 25 2009 @ 11:53 am "In the end, these are the president's weapons and it's going to take presidential leadership for him to move this forward." http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#153 08 25 2009 @ 11:52 am "'Let us "bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations,' said [President John] Kennedy in his Inaugural Address in January 1961. 'Weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us,' he told the United Nations General Assembly later that year. '...No longer is the quest for disarmament a sign of weakness, (nor) the destruction of arms a dream -- it is a practical matter of life or death. The risks inherent in disarmament pale in comparison to the risks inherent in an unlimited arms race.' " http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#152 08 18 2009 @ 2:54 pm "For decades, we believed that the terrible effects of nuclear weapons would be sufficient to prevent their use. The superpowers were likened to a pair of scorpions in a bottle, each knowing a first strike would be suicidal. Today’s expanding nest of scorpions, however, means that no one is safe." http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#151 06 23 2009 @ 2:34 pm "We are ready to cut our strategic delivery vehicles by several times compared with the Start I treaty." http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#146 06 05 2009 @ 9:49 am "I understand those who protest that some countries have weapons that others do not. No single nation should pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons. That is why I strongly reaffirmed America's commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons." http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#145 05 21 2009 @ 10:43 am ""There is no such thing as a good nuclear weapons system," York said in a 1983 interview with The Times. "There is no way to achieve, in the sound sense, national security through nuclear weapons." " http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#144 05 20 2009 @ 1:59 pm ""We are going to be pushing this [“a long-term vision of a world without nuclear weapons”] as one of our highest priorities, to take specific steps, measurable steps, and verifiable steps to make progress on this issue even as we keep a long term perspective and a long term vision about what can be achieved.”" http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#143 02 24 2009 @ 12:08 pm "A world without nuclear weapons is no longer a dream held by only a few but is now the ambition of the world.... President-elect Obama and I share a common bold agenda on nonproliferation. He wants to work toward the elimination of nuclear weapons. He wants to repair the badly damaged international arms control regime. And he wants to ensure that nuclear materials around the world are safe from theft or misuse." http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#142 02 24 2009 @ 11:35 am "Winning over sceptical audiences in the US and elsewhere will take time, but the Obama administration can begin by proposing a series of practical steps to convince sceptics and allies alike that the vision of a world without nuclear weapons is not a flight of fancy but a practical goal." http://www.nukewatch.org/quotes/index.php#141