"But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons."

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"But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons."

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"To sum up, there is no evidence that a world without nuclear weapons would be a dangerous world. On the contrary, it would be a safer world, as I will show later."

Joseph Rotblat, Polish Physicist

Weapon, Weapons, Will, World

"Who's paying the million bucks? The insurance company. We've been trying for years to get the insurance industry to say to the gun industry, We won't insure you unless you have policies that will reduce the likelihood of guns falling into the wrong hands easily."

Michael D. Barnes, American Politician

Weapon, Company, Trying, Will, Wrong

"Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes."

Cher, American Musician

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"Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons."

Herman Kahn, American Scientist

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"We have no such weapons at all, no chemical weapons, no biological weapons."

Mohammed Aldouri, Iraqi Politician

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"We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on to working with the weapons, and from then on working with the wires."

Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese Actress

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"This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack."

Joseph Rotblat, Polish Physicist

Weapon, Weapons

"My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained."

Herman Kahn, American Scientist

Weapon, Weapons, Will, Years

"We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons."

George Wald, American Scientist

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"Prayer is the Christian's greatest weapon."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared."

Communism, Disaster, Race, Weapons

"Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them is dismantling about 2,000 nuclear warheads a year."

War, End

"All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero."

First, Now, Open, states

"The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble."

Life, War, Crisis, Facts

"Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons."

Peace, Military, Present, Public

"But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction."

Death, Science, Technology, Achievement

"I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act."

Time, History, Civilization, Development

"I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science."

Life, Science, Danger, Humanity

"Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce."

Science, Destruction, Weapons

"Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty."

Legal, People, Commitment, Desire