#weapons

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

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#any #costly #imagine #infinitely #iranian

The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern. ↗

— Mitchell Reiss

#concern #current #even #material #nuclear

I knew I didn't have much of a chance of getting away from that swarm of fae piranha, but it was an infinitely larger chance than I would have if I stayed in the car and burned to death. Hell's bells, what I wouldn't give to have my shield bracelet. Or my old staff. I didn't even have an umbrella. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#weapons #death

So you see, you have nothing to be afraid of." Oh no, thought Otto, just squads of hired goons wandering around with experimental energy weapons. Nothing to be afraid of at all. ↗

— Mark Walden

#contessa #humor #otto #weapons #education

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#destiny #divine #down #fathers #fatigue

Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand. ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

#more #play #should #than #understand

It is my strong hope that an environment will be created in which both of our countries can cooperate for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons. ↗

— Yoshiro Mori

#cooperate #countries #created #environment #hope

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

#nuclear-weapons #war #weaponry #age

It was time to bring out the world destructive weapons. It was now time to hit him where it would do the biggest damage, his pride. ↗

— Ottilie Weber

#inner-self #pride #revenge #strength #weapons