"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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"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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"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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"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

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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

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"Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes."

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

Sarah Brady, American Activist

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

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"I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking."

Thinking

"A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages."

Technology

"For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur."

Time

"For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate."

People

"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."

American

"New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war."

War

"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."

Defence

"Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality."

Morality

"World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race."

War

"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