#nuclear weapon

In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#canada #discussion #late #major #nuclear

The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all. ↗

— Charles Horner

#i #nuclear #nuclear weapon #obsolete #rid

I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#believed #biological #building #chemical #enough

We have an active program. We have nuclear weapons, we are a nuclear power. We have an advanced missiles program. ↗

— Ayub Khan

#advanced #missiles #nuclear #nuclear power #nuclear weapons

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons. ↗

— Andrei Sakharov

#develop #group #i #included #nuclear

The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#been #begin #destruction #gradually #may

And it raises a fundamental question: How long can we move the world in one direction while we move in another direction, and do we want to backslide into an era that we finally emerged from where we had a nuclear weapon for every tactical mission? ↗

— John Spratt

#direction #emerged #era #every #finally

My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#been #changed #feelings #had #i

So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#developing #dictatorships #east #focused #goal

The United States, and the president's made this clear, does not want Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. That's a red line for us. And it's a red line obviously for the Israelis so we share a common goal here. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#common #common goal #develop #does #goal