“The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.” WarPurposeRaceExistenceMilitaryArmsWeaponsAddNuclearNuclear WeaponsPerilArms RaceNuclear ArmsNuclear Arms Race Author:Lord Mountbatten
“NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed not by its residents Africa. Superior to the Caucasian in that negroes did not invent nuclear weapons, the automobile, Christianity, nerve gas, the concentration camp, military epidemics, or the megalopolis.” HumansRaceChristianityLandMilitaryMembersWeaponsNuclearSuperiorsHuman RaceGasConcentrationNervesCampsAncestorNuclear WeaponsAutomobileEpidemicsHailChunksResidentsConcentration CampCaucasian Book:Stand on Zanzibar Source: Stand on Zanzibar
“I'd just like to say "thank you" to President Bush and to the men and women of the US military, who by the New York Times' own admission took out a terror-sponsoring regime in Iraq that could have constructed a nuclear weapon within months, as soon as sanctions were lifted enough for them to obtain sufficient fissile material.” MenEnoughPresidentMilitaryNew YorkHe ManMaterialsMonthsWeaponsMen And WomenIraqTerrorNuclearSufficientRegimesNuclear WeaponsPresident BushSanctionsNew York TimesAdmissionSaying Thank YouUs Military Author:Charles Foster Johnson
“Teller contended, not implausibly, that hydrogen bombs keep the peace, or at least prevent thermonuclear war, because the consequences of warfare between nuclear powers are now too dangerous. We haven't had a nuclear war yet, have we? But all such arguments assume that the nuclear-armed nations are and always will be, without exception, rational actors, and that bouts of anger and revenge and madness will never overtake their leaders (or military and secret police officers in charge of nuclear weapons). In the century of Hitler and Stalin, this seems ingenuous.” WarSeemsActorsNationsSecretLeaderCenturyMilitaryDangerousHavensWeaponsConsequenceArgumentMadnessPoliceAssumingRevengeNuclearRationalBombsExceptionOfficersNuclear WeaponsWarfarePolice OfficerNuclear WarHydrogenNuclear PowerSecret PoliceHydrogen Bomb Author:Carl Sagan
“In early 1961 a new president, John F. Kennedy, was told by military leaders and civilian officials that the Kingdom of Laos - of no conceivable strategic importance to the U.S. - required the presence of American troops and perhaps even tactical nuclear weapons. Why? Because if Laos fell, Asia would go red from Thailand to Indonesia.” IfsPresidentLeaderMilitaryWeaponsRedImportanceNuclearKingdomsOfficialsNuclear WeaponsTroopsAsiaIndonesiaCiviliansStrategicThailandTacticalMilitary LeaderLaosAmerican TroopsPresident John F Kennedy Author:Jeff Greenfield
“The Americans have surrounded our country with military bases and threatened us with nuclear weapons, and now they will learn just what it feels like to have enemy missiles pointed at you; we'd be doing nothing more than giving them a little of their own medicine.” GivingFeelsLittlesCountryEnemyMilitaryWeaponsBasesMedicineNuclearOur CountryNuclear WeaponsThreatenedDoing NothingMissilesMilitary Bases Author:Nikita Khrushchev
“Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to American prestige. The United States might even touch off a worldwide armaments race.” StatesMightWould BePoliticalLossUnitedRaceUnited StatesMilitaryWeaponsGainsAdvantageNuclearPsychologicalUsaDamageNuclear WeaponsPrestigeArmament Author:Albert Einstein
“The real threat to U.S. military power is nuclear proliferation, because if every little country has nuclear weapons it becomes very tricky for the United States to engage in military action.” IfsLittlesRealCountryStatesActionUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryWeaponsThreatNuclearNuclear WeaponsTrickyProliferationMilitary PowerNuclear ProliferationMilitary Action Author:Immanuel Wallerstein
“We are spending hundreds of billions of dollars maintaining 5,000 nuclear weapons. I think we need major reform in the military, making it more cost effective, but also focusing on the real crisis that faces America.” ThinkingNeedsRealAmericaFacesMilitaryCostMajorsWeaponsCrisisDollarsSpendingNuclearBillionsReformNuclear WeaponsMaintaining Author:Bernie Sanders
“So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.” LongForceMilitaryWeaponsNuclearTemptationOverwhelmingNuclear WeaponsMilitary ForceOverwhelming Force Author:Daisaku Ikeda
“I believe that when we overdo our military aggressiveness, what it does it actually weakens our national defense. I mean, we stood up to the Soviets. They had 40,000 nuclear weapons. Now we're fretting day in and day - night about third-world countries that have no army, navy or air force.” WorldBelieveMeanCountryNightForceI BelieveAirMilitaryWeaponsThirdsArmyDefenseNuclearNuclear WeaponsNavyDay And NightThird WorldStood UpAir ForceNational DefenseAggressivenessFrettingThird World CountriesArmy Navy Author:Ron Paul
“The biggest budget is the military budget. For what? We're fighting two wars in very small countries that have no nuclear weapons, that have no capabilities to destroy anything. They probably couldn't even get to America.” TwoWarCountryAmericaFightingMilitaryWeaponsNuclearBudgetsCapabilityNuclear WeaponsSmall CountriesMilitary Budget Author:Lupe Fiasco
“As a military man who has given half a century of active service I say in all sincerity that the nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils because of the illusions they have generated. There are powerful voices around the world who still give credence to the old Roman precept - if you desire peace, prepare for war. This is absolute nuclear nonsense.” IfsMenWorldGivingStillsWarDesirePurposeGivenVoicePowerfulRaceExistenceHalfCenturyMilitaryArmsWeaponsIllusionAbsolutesAddActiveNuclearAround The WorldNonsenseSincerityNuclear WeaponsPerilArms RaceHalf A CenturyCredenceMilitary ManNuclear ArmsNuclear Arms Race Author:Lord Mountbatten
“Israel has military capabilities including nuclear weapons, far surpassing any other power in the Middle East, but it's a small country. The rest of the Middle Eastern peoples are Muslim and Israelis are not, so it is hardly in any position to become the leading power.” CountryMiddleMilitaryPositionWeaponsIncludingIsraelEastNuclearCapabilityMiddle EastNuclear WeaponsEasternSurpassingSmall Countries Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“Both [Donald] Trump and Hillary [Clinton] want bigger military budgets and Hillary supports President Obama's one trillion dollar expenditure to so-called upgrade nuclear weapons. P” WantPresidentSupportMilitaryTrumpWeaponsBiggerDollarsClintonNuclearBudgetsPresident ObamaNuclear WeaponsExpendituresMilitary Budget Author:Ralph Nader
“On January 20, 2017, Trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, and he will be given the nuclear codes and the power to launch the U.S. nuclear arsenal, which is comprised of some 7,000 nuclear weapons. A military officer will always be close to Trump, carrying the nuclear codes in a briefcase known as the "football."” StatesGivenPresidentUnitedKnownUnited StatesMilitaryFootballTrumpWeaponsNuclearCodeOfficersNuclear WeaponsJanuaryArsenalBriefcases Author:David Krieger
“At one point, for example, [Donald Trump] argued that he knew much more than military leaders about the pursuit and defeat of ISIS. His assuredness of his own correctness seems also rooted in arrogance reflecting his fundamental insecurity. This insecurity and his belief in his own rightness, when combined with his success at making money, leads him to be self-reliant in his decision-making, which could result in his taking risks with threatening or using nuclear weapons.” SelfSeemsBeliefDecisionResultsLeaderRiskMilitaryExampleTrumpWeaponsFundamentalsDefeatNuclearPursuitMaking MoneyArroganceInsecurityDecision MakingRootedNuclear WeaponsThreateningReflectingIsisCorrectnessTaking RisksSelf ReliantMilitary Leader Author:David Krieger
“You cannot use [nuclear weapons] to target civilians; you cannot use them against military targets if they have indiscriminate effects on civilians in addition to the attack on the military target.” IfsUseEffectsMilitaryWeaponsNuclearTargetNuclear WeaponsCivilians Author:John Burroughs
“It would seem to be the case that pressure on Iran to acquire nuclear weapons is almost totally driven by their need for a deterrent capability to avoid the fate of Iraq, Libya. The use of American military force in Syria thus sends exactly the opposite message as supposedly desired to the leadership in Tehran - and to others. North Korea has been dealt with diplomatically because it has the bomb and might use it if provoked.” IfsNeedsHas BeensUseSeemsMightForceCasesFateMilitaryMessagesWeaponsOppositesPressureIraqDrivenNuclearBombsAcquireIranCapabilityNuclear WeaponsSyriaKoreaNorth KoreaLibyaProvokedMilitary ForceDeterrentTehranAmerican MilitaryMight Use Author:Richard A. Falk
“We also need to look at precedent before making these decisions. Instead of listening to Muammar Qaddafi's rhetoric, we should look at how he's behaved. The fact is he's been making concessions recently. He gave up his nuclear weapons. He allowed hundreds of Americans to evacuate Tripoli. Did he crack down on his people who revolted? Yes, but that's not so unusual. For me, it's always a failure of diplomacy. Our willingness to immediately turn to a military solution is disturbing.” PeopleDecisionMilitaryListeningSolutionsWillingnessUnusualNuclear WeaponsRhetoricDiplomacyGave Up Author:Michael Hastings
“North Korea and China have proposed what sounds like a pretty sensible option that North Korea should end its development of nuclear weapons, the US should stop carrying out hostile military maneuvers on the North Korean border. The US immediately rejected it. Modernization program is a very clear example of how security doesn't matter. There is no gain in security but massive overkill of the adversary's deterrent capacity. The only consequence of it is to elicit the likelihood of a preemptive attack. And a preemptive attack leads to a nuclear winter world.” WorldSecurityMilitaryConsequenceProgramWinterSensibleNuclear WeaponsRejectedNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Noam Chomsky
“The Iranians know that if they develop nuclear weapons, they will be in tremendous jeopardy from military capabilities of their neighbors and of the United States. I am not predicting what will happen in 2013, but I do think it is a crucial year. I hope we can make it clear to the Iranians that we do not object to them having peaceful use of nuclear power. But when they enrich Uranium to a 20 percent level, people think they are going for the bomb. Their uranium enrichment program is a real danger.” PeopleThinkingRealMilitaryDangerProgramNeighborPeacefulCapabilityNuclear WeaponsNuclear PowerEnrichmentUranium Author:Sam Nunn
“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” WorldDeathHistoryMilitaryCivilizationConflictScientistNuclearNuclear WeaponsExplosionsDestroyersAtomic BombGitaTwo WorldsWw2Nuclear BombAtom BombBooks And MoviesNuclear ArmsGodzillaHiroshima And NagasakiWorlds ApartVishnuAtomic WeaponsDropping BombsManhattan Project Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer
“Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.” WorldHeartI CanTodayNumbersMilitaryMy HeartWeaponsBottomNuclearZeroNuclear WeaponsBetter PlaceNuclear BombNukes Author:Colin Powell