#nuclear weapon

The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid. ↗

— Hans Blix

#any #apartheid #because #cold #cold war

Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#day #decade #forward #go #going

We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums. ↗

— Dianne Feinstein

#administration #arsenals #been #both #chance

Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news is that they have to drop it with a camel. ↗

— David Letterman

#bad news #bomb #camel #drop #experts

It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was astounded in Hiroshima to find that nobody had really studied it. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#astounded #because #concerns #deep #find

If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq. ↗

— George McGovern

#develop #happened #i #i think #iran

Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#deterrent #intend #introduce #israel #look

The most dangerous thing Iraq could have ever had was a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon Iraq was trying to build was not deliverable by bomb or ballistic missile. It was a large, bulky device that they hoped to bury and set off to let the world know they had a nuclear weapon. They never achieved that. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#ballistic #bomb #build #bury #could

If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region. ↗

— John Bolton

#arabia #certainly #egypt #iran #nuclear

All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#be the first #declare #down #first #form