#weapons

When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some 15,000 nuclear warheads, active and in reserve. Fifteen thousand weapons with an average yield of 20 Hiroshima bombs. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#average #been #bombs #fifteen #hiroshima

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#destruction #imagine #innocent #mass #men

It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished. ↗

— Eisaku Sato

#earnest #hope #may #nuclear #nuclear weapons

The Iraqi military are able to deploy these weapons within 45 minutes of a decision to do so. ↗

— John Scarlett

#decision #deploy #iraqi #military #minutes

Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#deeply #destruction #failure #far #find

Weapons are created to be used. There's no place for the weak on this earth. ↗

— Curt Siodmak

#earth #place #used #weak #weapons

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery. ↗

— Stendhal

#close #feminine #found #had #himself

We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#call #case #cloud #committed #different

Saddam Hussein has openly admitted to the rest of the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. He used those weapons to kill his own people. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#destruction #had #his #hussein #kill

One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI). ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#counter #destruction #efforts #important #initiative