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

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

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"Prayer is the Christian's greatest weapon."

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

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"Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes."

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"Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all."

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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."

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

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"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."

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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."

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"From my earliest days I had a passion for science."

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"The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence."

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"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."

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"Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them."

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"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."

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"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."

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

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"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."

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"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."

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