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

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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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"Prayer is the Christian's greatest weapon."

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"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."

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"Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes."

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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

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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

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

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"We have to get rid of those nuclear 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."

Herman Kahn, American Scientist

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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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"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 the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations."

Commerce

"It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense."

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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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"There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans."

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"In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it."

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"Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs."

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"Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely."

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"Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral."

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"I'm against fashionable thinking."

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"The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own."

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