“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
“Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but the presence or even the fear of the presence of a single landmine can prevent the cultivation of an entire field, rob a whole village of its livelihood, place yet another obstacle on a country's road to reconstruction and development” ChildrenCountryWholeLyingWaitingSilenceMillionsFieldsDevelopmentWeaponsObstaclesInnocentVillageBuriedLivelihoodCultivationReconstructionLandmines Author:Kofi Annan
“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
“Personally, I'd be delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of assault weapons.” CountryCoupleGayMarriedWeaponsClosetsAssaultDelightedHappily MarriedAssault WeaponsGay Couples Author:Glenn Reynolds
“The most powerful military in the world cannot invade, kill or capture a network or destroy every loose weapon on the planet. The best response to this network of terror is to build a network of our own -- a network of like-minded countries and organizations that pools resources, information, ideas, and power. Taking on the radical fundamentalists alone isn't necessary, it isn't smart, and it won't succeed.” WorldIdeasCountryPowerfulMilitaryInformationPlanetsSucceedWeaponsSmartResourcesOrganizationResponseTerrorTerrorismRadicalMost PowerfulCapturePool Author:Joe Biden
“It's very hard to get other countries to give up their weapons when you're busy developing a new one.” GivingCountryHardGiving UpWeaponsBusyDevelopingOther Countries Author:John F. Kerry
“We believe, from everything we have been told by the intelligence community, by 12 years of history with Iraq, by the experience of the U.N. inspectors and by other intelligence agencies in other countries that Saddam Hussein had the intention to develop weapons of mass destruction and to have such weapons, and that was a sound judgment which I still believe to this day because he had had them in the past, he'd used them in the past.” YearsBelieveHas BeensStillsCountryPastUsedSoundCommunityJudgmentWeaponsMassDestructionIntentionIraqAgencyThis DayOther CountriesSaddamHusseinWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionI Still BelieveInspectorsIntelligence AgenciesIntelligence CommunitySound Judgment Author:Colin Powell
“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
“The Soviet Union has long been proposing to outlaw chemical weapons, to remove them from the arsenals of states. We are prepared for resolution of this problem either on a global basis or piece by piece. As one of the first steps the USSR and the other socialist countries proposed in January 1984 that agreement be reached on ridding Europe of all types of chemical weapons.” FirstsLongCountryStatesProblemStepsPiecesTypeWeaponsEuropeBasesUnionsPreparedRemoveAgreementResolutionChemicalsSovietFirst StepsSocialistSoviet UnionJanuaryArsenalOutlawUssrChemical WeaponsSocialist Countries Author:Konstantin Chernenko
“Nobody wants any country to have nuclear weapons.” WantCountryWeaponsNuclearNuclear Weapons Author:Mohamed ElBaradei
“Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction threaten more than assure, and I hope that will be followed by others.” CountryExampleWeaponsMassDestructionRealizationWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionGood ExamplesLibya Author:Mohamed ElBaradei
“Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.” KnowsWarCountryEarthFacesWeaponsMassProgramDestructionIraqActiveWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass Destruction Author:Donald Rumsfeld
“It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp.” Has BeensCountrySeemsSidesRaceArmsWeaponsBeatsLaysJustifiedUnwillingPulpArms RaceRhetorical Author:Pat Sajak