NWNM Radioactive Quotes

Quote Number 174

05 11 2012 @ 5:42 pm "Judging by the proposals in this bill, one would think that the Soviet Union hadn't dissolved and that taxpayer funds were limitless. . . this bill funds pet nuclear projects as if the Cold War were at its peak while busting the fiscally-prudent defense spending cap that Congress agreed to last year as part of the Budget Control Act"

Quote Number 173

05 11 2012 @ 5:39 pm "The grim prospect of nuclear famine requires a fundamental change in our thinking about nuclear weapons. The new evidence that even the relatively small nuclear arsenals of countries such as India and Pakistan could cause long lasting, global damage to the Earth's ecosystems and threaten hundreds of millions of already malnourished people demands that action be taken. The needless and preventable deaths of one billion people over a decade would be a disaster unprecedented in human history. It would not cause the extinction of the human race, but it would bring an end to modern civilization as we know it."

Quote Number 172

05 09 2012 @ 8:40 pm "It is in connection with the principles of jus in bello that charges of the immorality of nuclear deterrence arise. Threatening civilian populations completely disregards the distinction between combatants and noncombatants. Deterrence requires that millions be threatened as a means to influence the decisions of a few leaders. Thus deterrence requires that we treat human life as a mere object of policy and a means rather than an end. The theologian Paul Ramsey draws the analogy of deterring reckless automobile drivers by tying babies to the front bumpers of every car:
'This would be no way to regulate traffic even if it succeeds in regulating it perfectly, for such a system makes innocent human lives the direct object of attack and uses them as a mere means for restraining the drivers of automobiles. It would even have to be assumed that the drivers will tacitly agree never to remove the baby from the bumper, since that would destabilize the entire system of controls!'"

Quote Number 171

05 09 2012 @ 11:15 am "Our political system is losing its ability to even explore alternatives. If fealty to these pledges [to the ideologies of both parties] continues to expand, legislators may pledge their way into irrelevance. Voters will be electing a slate of inflexible positions rather than a leader."

Quote Number 170

04 19 2012 @ 8:52 pm "My takeaway from The Partnership is that nuclear weapons are in the process of being reframed. After decades of foundations, think tanks, and universities lavishing resources on game theorists to devise hyper-rational scenarios in which nuclear weapons could be used in war and diplomacy for national advantage, these devices are now in the process of being recoded as unacceptable instruments of terror that are of no use in war."

Quote Number 169

06 16 2011 @ 9:25 am "Only in Washington could an increase of this magnitude be seen as a cut"

Quote Number 168

05 19 2011 @ 2:32 pm "...this would be like allowing Lockheed Martin to tell the Pentagon which planes it needs to build." "

Quote Number 167

04 01 2011 @ 10:41 am "From the Central European perspective I would argue that basically assurance beats deterrence."

Quote Number 166

03 26 2011 @ 1:56 pm "When you hear �no immediate danger� then you should run away as far and as fast as you can."

Quote Number 165

03 16 2011 @ 3:53 pm "You have to ask, what kind of numbskull would put a waste 'pond' for spent fuel right above the reactor of a nuclear plant, thus insuring that in the event of a meltdown, not only would the core of the reactor blow up into the environment, but also all of the spent fuel from prior years?..."

Quote Number 164

10 29 2010 @ 12:35 pm "There are those in America that are trying to flex their muscles and pretend they're ballsy by saying, �we've got to keep those nuclear weapons',[They think] that's very rugged, when you say that. It's not rugged at all. It's an idiot that says that. It's stupid to say that."

Quote Number 163

10 18 2010 @ 2:58 pm "I seriously question the need for Trident and the need for a nuclear deterrent generally. The question really is whether the country can afford it when a lot of people are going to be out of work."

Quote Number 162

09 03 2010 @ 1:49 pm "Let us make a decision for all of humanity: that one day this facility [the Kansas City Plant] may be transformed from a producer of weapons into a producer of goods that benefit all mankind."

Quote Number 161

08 25 2010 @ 10:34 am "Being skeptical of the design labs' management integrity, I'm suspicious that the real reason for the "urgency" is budget-related."

Quote Number 160

08 10 2010 @ 9:16 am "This treaty is a masterstroke. . . . It is shorn of the tortured bench marks, sub-limits, arcane definitions and monitoring provisions that weighed down past arms control treaties. It assumes a degree of trust between nations that are no longer on the precipice of war."