“At any rate, those problems [ non-proliferation regime for weapons of mass destruction ] would not be so acute, with numerous terror attacks and victims of those attacks in many areas of the world - in Europe and in the United States. We also never would have had such an urgent problem with refugees, I have no doubt about it.” WorldStatesProblemUnitedUnited StatesDoubtWeaponsMassEuropeAreasDestructionVictimRateTerrorNo DoubtRegimesRefugeeUrgentWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionProliferationTerror Attacks Author:Vladimir Putin
“Certainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches of the armed services that are involved with nuclear weapons deployment, especially the naval submarine operations and also the air force's land-based ICBM operations. So they have a big lobby in Washington.” StatesBigsFormForceUnitedUnited StatesAirLandInvolvedWeaponsNuclearOperationsBranchesNuclear WeaponsLaboratoryAir ForceNavalDeploymentSubmarinesArmed Services Author:John Burroughs
“It doesn't seem to be that huge a commitment that would create, you know, some kind of really powerful constituency. But the history has been for the United States and Russia especially that nuclear weapons have kind of become part of the identity of the countries.” KnowsKindHas BeensCountryStatesSeemsUnitedPowerfulUnited StatesIdentityHugeWeaponsCommitmentNuclearRussiaNuclear WeaponsReally Powerful Author:John Burroughs
“Somewhat by historical happenstance the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - United States, Britain, France, Russia, and China - also were the original five countries to have nuclear weapons.” CountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesFiveSecurityMembersWeaponsOriginalsHistoricalChinaNuclearRussiaFrancePermanentBritainNuclear WeaponsCouncilSecurity CouncilHappenstance Author:John Burroughs
“My group, the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, was one of the principle organizers. So, there was this campaign to support the United Nations General Assembly in asking the International Court of Justice for an advisory opinion on the legality of threat or use of nuclear weapons.” UseNationsJusticeUnitedOpinionPrinciplesSupportGroupsPolicyWeaponsAskingCourtThreatInternationalLawyerNuclearCampaignsNuclear WeaponsCommitteesUnited NationsAssemblyOrganizerLegalityGeneral AssemblyAdvisory Author:John Burroughs
“The United States says "We're complying. We're following the disarmament obligation. Look at the quantitative reductions that are taking place." But, since '96, there really hasn't been progress on specific commitments that have been made. Perhaps most disturbing is this: that the United States and France in particular, since 1996, have expanded the range of circumstances under which they might use - they say they might use - nuclear weapons.” LooksHas BeensMadeStatesUseMightUnitedUnited StatesProgressParticularCircumstancesWeaponsCommitmentFollowingNuclearObligationFranceRangeNuclear WeaponsDisturbingReductionDisarmamentMight UseComplying Author:John Burroughs
“Basically [United States and France] said "We will use nuclear weapons whenever it suits our purposes to do so." So this expansion of doctrines regarding possible use of nuclear weapons makes them more, you know, sort of, salient and important and so it's increasing the perceived political value of nuclear weapons and therefore causing or contributing to possible proliferation.” KnowsSaidImportantStatesUsePoliticalPurposeValuesUnitedUnited StatesWeaponsNuclearDoctrineSuitsFranceNuclear WeaponsExpansionContributingProliferation Author:John Burroughs
“On both of my major trips to North Korea, the leaders of the country made it plain that they want to make progress towards doing away with nuclear weapons and towards ending the longstanding, official state of war which persists between North Korea and the United States and South Korea, a war which has continued since the ceasefire over fifty years ago. That sort of thing happens quite often when we meet with people who are kind of international outcasts with whom the government of the United States won't meet.” PeopleWantYearsKindMadeWarCountryStatesGovernmentHappensUnitedLeaderUnited StatesProgressMajorsWeaponsYears AgoSouthInternationalNuclearThings HappenMade ItOfficialsFiftyNuclear WeaponsPersistKoreaNorth KoreaOutcastSouth KoreaCeasefire Author:Jimmy Carter
“As long as I'm president of the United States Iran will not get a nuclear weapon. I made that clear when I came into office.” LongMadeStatesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesClearOfficeWeaponsNuclearIranNuclear Weapons Author:Barack Obama
“I would have I think made a bigger mistake if I had said, "Eh, chemical weapons. That doesn't really change my calculus." I think it was important for me as president of the United States to send a message that in fact there is something different about chemical weapons [in Syria].” IfsThinkingMadeSaidImportantDifferentStatesFactsPresidentUnitedMistakeUnited StatesMessagesWeaponsBiggerChemicalsSyriaCalculusChemical Weapons Author:Barack Obama
“Eisenhower provided the first break in the Cold War, by bringing Khrushchev to the United States, in humanizing the Soviets; and then Nixon, by making the opening to China; and then Reagan, even meeting in Reykjavik with Gorbachev and acknowledging that nuclear weapons are a horror. So I won't accept that Republicans just escalate. Republicans, at least when they were more moderate, they were maybe even more isolationist, they sometimes brought sanity to the debate. We don't have that now. We have - all these Republicans have gone off the neoconservative deep end.” FirstsWarEndsSometimesStatesUnitedAcceptingBreakUnited StatesGoneColdRepublicanHorrorWeaponsMeetingsChinaNuclearDebateOpeningSanityNuclear WeaponsCold WarModeratesGorbachevReykjavik Author:Robert Scheer
“Iraq was only the latest in a succession of countries. Earlier, there was Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, Granada, Panama. But this time it wasn't just your ordinary brand of friendly neighborhood frenzy. It was frenzy with a purpose. It ushered in an old doctrine in a new bottle: the doctrine of preemptive strike, also known as the United States can do whatever the hell it wants, and that's official. The war against Iraq has been fought and won, and no weapons of mass destruction have been found, not even a little one.” WantLittlesHas BeensWarCountryStatesPurposeFoundCan DoUnitedKnownUnited StatesHellWeaponsMassOrdinaryDestructionIraqStrikesDoctrineBrandsOfficialsNeighborhoodFriendlyBottlesCubaSuccessionWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionFrenzyLibyaNicaraguaPanamaGranada Author:Arundhati Roy
“Arab public opinion does not regard Iran as a hostile entity. In fact it's so supportive of Iran that a majority would think the place would be better off if Iran had nuclear weapons. The main enemies are the United States and Isreal, in the 80, 90 percent range.” IfsThinkingDoeStatesFactsWould BeUnitedOpinionEnemyUnited StatesWeaponsPercentRegardMajorityNuclearRangeIranNuclear WeaponsEntityHostileSupportiveBetter OffPublic Opinion Author:Noam Chomsky
“What I criticize is the message that the United States is sending to the youth of the world - to those of us who invite people to leave the ways of violence and the drug trade, we are not given a visa but those that sell drugs and weapons, yes.” PeopleWorldWayStatesGivenUnitedUnited StatesViolenceYouthDrugMessagesWeaponsTradeSellsCriticizeInvitesVisa Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“It's a shame to see drug dealers enter and leave the United States as if nothing in addition to those that purchase weapons and firearms.” IfsStatesUnitedUnited StatesDrugWeaponsShameDealerFirearmsDrug Dealers Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“There had been a proposed plank for the platform that said the Republican Party believed the United States should support Ukraine in any way that we could up to and including providing them weapons, so they could fight off Russian incursions into Ukraine.That was the proposed plank in the Republican Party platform. The [Donald] Trump folks didn`t care about anything else.” WayShouldSaidStatesCareFightingUnitedPartyUnited StatesSupportTrumpRepublicanWeaponsIncludingFolksPlatformsProvidingRepublican PartyUkraine Author:Rachel Maddow
“The United States was the one nullifying any attempt in the Security Council of the United Nations to sanction those fascist governments, really segregationist and racist. The same thing it is doing for Israel is what it used to do for South Africa who ended up having seven nuclear weapons. Why didn't they act against them like they did against Iraq for the so called weapons of mass destruction during Bush that never existed in the first place?” FirstsStatesGovernmentUsedNationsUnitedUnited StatesSecurityWeaponsMassDestructionSouthSevenIraqIsraelNuclearRacistNuclear WeaponsSouth AfricaUnited NationsCouncilSanctionsWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionFascistsSecurity Council Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war.” SaidWarEndsStatesUnitedMillionsUnited StatesCostWeaponsMassDestructionDiedIntentionIraqProofCapabilityTroopsAttackingInjuredOctoberWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass Destruction Author:Dennis Kucinich
“As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.” StatesUsedUnitedResponsibilityMoralUnited StatesWeaponsNuclearNuclear WeaponsNuclear PowerMoral ResponsibilityNuclear Terrorism Author:Barack Obama
“The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.” StatesCommunityUnitedUnited StatesWeaponsFundamentalsInternationalNuclearIranNuclear WeaponsPremisesInternational Community Author:Leon Panetta
“But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He's already demonstrated that he's trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction.” WantTryingStatesUnitedUnited StatesProveWeaponsMassDestructionAcquireSaddamCautionHusseinWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionIncumbents Author:Condoleezza Rice
“If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.” IfsLongStatesWaitingUnitedUnited StatesClearDangerWeaponsDirect Author:John Sununu
“You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out and putting them into a truck and selling them to foreign powers. That type of stuff doesn't happen in the United States. We still have a very functioning and relatively civil society.” KnowsStillsStatesHappensUsedNightStuffUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryTypeWeaponsRussiaOpeningSellingOfficersTruckCivil SocietyOpening UpWarehouse Author:Matt Taibbi
“If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.” IfsEndsStatesWould BeEarthUnitedUnited StatesWeaponsNuclearTargetNuclear WeaponsArsenalEnd Of Life Author:Ted Turner
“President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.” MadeStatesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesClearWeaponsDeterminedNuclearMade ItIranPresident ObamaNuclear Weapons Author:John O. Brennan
“Here's the truth: the Soviet Union had thousands of nuclear weapons, and Iran doesn't have a single one. But when the world was on the brink of nuclear holocaust, Kennedy talked to Khrushchev and he got those missiles out of Cuba. Why shouldn't we have the same courage and the confidence to talk to our enemies? That's what strong countries do, that's what strong presidents do, that's what I'll do when I'm president of the United States of America.” WorldCountryStatesAmericaStrongPresidentUnitedEnemyUnited StatesWeaponsUnionsNuclearIranSovietHolocaustNuclear WeaponsUnited States Of AmericaSoviet UnionCubaMissiles Author:Barack Obama
“Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.” BookNationsUnitedPowerfulSpeechWeaponsPicksShotsMost PowerfulPensSurvivedUnited NationsJulyTalibanPowerful WeaponsMalala Author:Malala Yousafzai
“Our interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating truth of the 21st century. One stark result is that the world's poor live, and especially die, with the awareness that the United States is doing little to mobilise the weapons of mass salvation that could offer them survival, dignity and eventually the escape from poverty.” WorldLittlesStatesTruthDiesPoorUnitedResultsPovertyUnited StatesCenturyAwarenessPlanetsOffersWeaponsSurvivalMassDignitySalvation21st CenturyStarksInterconnectednessDominatingEnding Poverty Author:Jeffrey Sachs
“The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole. It is necessarily an evil thing considered in any light. For these reasons, we believe it important for the President of the United States to tell the American public and the world what we think is wrong on fundamental ethical principles to initiate the development of such a weapon.” ThinkingWorldBelieveImportantStatesReasonWholeFactsLightHumanityEvilPresidentUnitedExistencePrinciplesUnited StatesDangerDevelopmentLimitsWeaponsFundamentalsBombsEthicalConstructionInitiateHydrogenEvil ThingsDestructivenessHydrogen BombEthical Principles Author:Enrico Fermi
“I think, in fact, the situation with respect to al Qaeda, to say that, you know, that was a big attack we had on 9/11, but it's not likely again, I just think that's dead wrong. I think the biggest strategic threat the United States faces today is the possibility of another 9/11 with a nuclear weapon or a biological agent of some kind. And I think al Qaeda is out there even as we meet, trying to figure out how to do that.” ThinkingKnowsTryingKindStatesFactsBigsTodayFacesUnitedSituationUnited StatesFiguresPossibilityWeaponsThreatTerrorismNuclearAgentsAlsNuclear WeaponsStrategic Author:Dick Cheney
“The Hussein regime's support for terrorism, within and outside of its borders, its appetite for the world's most dangerous weapons, and its openly declared hostility to the United States were a combination that was a gathering and growing danger to our country.” WorldCountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesSupportGrowingDangerousDangerWeaponsTerrorismOur CountryCombinationBordersAppetiteRegimesGatheringHusseinHostility Author:Jim Gerlach
“Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other, that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. What is necessary is to reduce the matches and to clean up the gasoline.” IfsWellsKindTwoStatesWould BeScienceUnitedRoomsSituationEnemyUnited StatesImagineAmountNeededThousandWeaponsConcernedTragedyStrongerUnionsCleanSevenAvailableNineTragicExcessSovietSoviet UnionGasolineArms RaceLaughableNuclear Arms Race Author:Carl Sagan
“We would get rid of assault weapons. There would not be an assault weapon in the United States, whether it's for a show or someone having it in a collection.” StatesShowsUnitedUnited StatesWeaponsGunCollectionsGun ControlAssaultAssault Weapons Author:Bernard C. Parks