“You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.” WarCountryCommunicationHairConflictStrikesNuclearLocalsTriggersNuclear WarMiscalculations Author:Dennis A. Ross
“It's very certain that North Korea is developing nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. They don't need nuclear weapons to defend their own country.” NeedsCountryPurposeCertainWeaponsNuclearDevelopingNuclear WeaponsOffensiveKoreaNorth Korea Author:Kim Young-sam
“That Iran is willing to threaten Israel is wrong[. . . .] We pose no threat and if we are conducting nuclear research and development we are no threat to Israel. We have no intention of aggression against any country. [. . .] Today we announce to you that the political will of Iran is aimed at the negotiated settlement of the case and we dont want to aggravate the situation in our region[. . . .] We know that this issue can be settled in a constructive dialogue and we welcome that.” IfsKnowsWantCountryTodayPoliticalSituationCasesIssuesWillingDevelopmentResearchThreatIntentionIsraelNuclearDialogueWelcomeRegionsIranAggressionConstructiveSettlementConductingResearch And DevelopmentPolitical Will Author:Ali Larijani
“The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.” WantFeelsKindCountryFactsNuclearPursueThreatenedDeterrent Author:Stephen Walt
“The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.” CountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesShareWeaponsConcernProgramNuclearNuclear WeaponsOther CountriesOngoingKoreaNorth Korea Author:Mitchell Reiss
“Iran's strong logic and firm diplomacy is the guideline for all government officials in negotiations on country's peaceful nuclear program with foreigners, quite resolutely.” CountryGovernmentStrongProgramLogicNuclearPeacefulFirmOfficialsIranNegotiationDiplomacyForeignersGuidelinesGovernment Officials Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.” WarCountryEyePolicyMadnessNuclearNuclear WarDetente Author:Leonid Brezhnev
“I happened to read recently a remark by the American nuclear physicist W. Davidson, who noted that the explosion of one hydrogen bomb releases a greater amount of energy than all the explosions set off by all countries in all wars known in the entire history of mankind. And he, apparently, is right.” WarCountryEnergyKnownGreaterHappenedMankindAmountNuclearReleaseBombsPhysicistRemarksExplosionsHydrogenHydrogen Bomb Author:Nikita Khrushchev
“The Soviet Union's propaganda clearly wishes to use public opinion in this country to get the West to reduce its own arms while doing nothing themselves. In this way they would gain nuclear superiority. This is simply not on.” WayCountryUseWishOpinionArmsGainsUnionsWestNuclearPropagandaSovietSuperioritySoviet UnionPublic OpinionDoing Nothing Author:James Callaghan
“We should also challenge this country to come up with strategies and technologies that allow us to produce nuclear energy without necessarily producing a byproduct that can be converted to something far more dangerous. I believe that can be done. It may not be done tomorrow, but it clearly needs to be worked on.” NeedsShouldBelieveMayCountryDoneEnergyI BelieveChallengesTechnologyDangerousProduceTomorrowStrategyCome UpNuclearNuclear Energy Author:Tom Vilsack
“I, who had been in favour of nuclear energy for generating electricity ... I suddenly realised that anybody who has a nuclear reactor can extract the plutonium from the reactor and make nuclear weapons, so that a country which has a nuclear reactor can, at any moment that it wants to, become a nuclear weapons power. And I, right from the beginning, have been terribly worried by the existence of nuclear weapons and very much against their use.” WantHas BeensCountryMomentsUseEnergyExistenceWeaponsNuclearWorriedNuclear WeaponsElectricityFavourRealisedNuclear EnergyPlutoniumNuclear Reactors Author:Mark Oliphant
“Now, for the moment, we are safe. The only kind of international violence that worries most people in the developed countries is terrorism: from imminent heart attack to a bad case of hangnail in fifteen years flat. We are very lucky people--but we need to use the time we have been granted wisely, because total war is only sleeping. All the major states are still organized for war, and all that is needed for the world to slide back into a nuclear confrontation is a twist of the kaleidoscope that shifts international relations into a new pattern of rival alliances.” PeopleWorldNeedsYearsHeartKindHas BeensStillsWarCountryStatesMomentsUseSleepCasesWorryViolenceNeededLuckySafeMajorsRelationInternationalPatternsTerrorismNuclearGrantedOrganizedFlatsFifteenTwistsRivalsSlidesAlliancesConfrontationInternational RelationsTotal WarFifteen YearsHeart AttackKaleidoscopeDeveloped Country Author:Gwynne Dyer
“Every country has the right to nuclear technology as long as they use it safely, peacefully and in a secure way.” WayLongCountryUseTechnologyNuclearSecureNuclear Technology Author:Mohamed ElBaradei
“Nobody wants any country to have nuclear weapons.” WantCountryWeaponsNuclearNuclear Weapons Author:Mohamed ElBaradei
“It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.” PeopleShouldCountryGovernmentRealizingDangerousArmsImportanceAccessNuclearNuclear Arms Author:Alva Myrdal