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"We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons."
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"Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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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"Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited."

"I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule?"

"There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating."

"We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated."

"All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side."

"So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product."
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