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To sum up, there is no evidence that a world without nuclear weapons would be a dangerous world. On the contrary, it would be a safer world, as I will show later. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

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When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant. ↗

— William Scranton

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We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. ↗

— Richard Lugar

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The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

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I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing. ↗

— Martha Smith

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There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans' use of the Pacific for nuclear testing. ↗

— Martha Smith

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All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use it. ↗

— Peter King

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But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

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In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on and uninhabited planet. ↗

— William L. Shirer

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