#proliferation

Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#dangers #greatest #nuclear #our #our time

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic. ↗

— Barack Obama

#avian #beyond #come #first #flu

We've already seen proliferation. We started it with Britain, then France. Then we benignly let the Israelis do it. The Pakistanis and the Indians have recently done it. The Chinese have nuclear weapons. ↗

— William Odom

#britain #chinese #done #france #indians

Challenging the integrity of the non-proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#challenging #integrity #international #international peace #matter

If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#deny #disaster #how #insecure #least

Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#commitment #desire #disarmament #entered #expressed

I believe that we were not as effective in the second term dealing with this issue of nuclear none proliferation as we had been during the first term when we stripped Libya and Iraq and A.Q. Khan and their capacity to proliferate nuclear technology. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#believe #capacity #dealing #during #effective

The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#citizens #contributed #digital #enabled #itself