The dawn of the nuclear age was not a welcomed one. Most scientists and politicians knew that there was no turning back to a more innocent time. With a touch of a button, the world could quickly and irrevocably reduced to ashes by nuclear annihilation, as evidenced by the nearly cataclysmic Cuban Missile Crisis. Nuclear weapons quotes let us peek into the window to the other side, so we know the tremendous responsibility and the tremendous costs these weapons of mass destruction carry. And with luck, the sage words of politicians, scientists and philosophers will help us see the folly that any nuclear war is unwinnable, and perhaps even, barely survivable.
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"China and the United States have supported our proposal and this gives hopes that the Iranian nuclear issue will be settled. We have some time, because according to expert conclusions, Iran will need another four or six years to create nuclear weapons."
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"[Many of its recommendations] are consistent with DOE initiatives already under way to modernize the nuclear weapons complex and consolidate special nuclear material, ... Some of the more sweeping proposals could have significant budget impacts that will have to be assessed very carefully."
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"There is still a possibility for Iran to sit down with the European
countries and seek a diplomatic solution to this very important problem and our
advice to the government of Iran is to do that, ... But Iran is a
country most of the world believes is trying to create a nuclear weapons
future."
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"[Also on the tapes, Dean Rusk, Kennedy's secretary of state, counsels that the use of nuclear weapons would have to have support from America's allies.] I think we would be hard pressed to tell our own people why we are doing this with India when even the British won't do it or the Australians won't do it and the Canadians won't do it, ... We need to have those other flags flying on these joint enterprises."
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"The real alternatives to diplomacy are much worse: either rapid descent to a North Korea situation, with an unsupervised nuclear program leading inexorably to nuclear weapons and all their dangerously unpredictable regional consequences; or an Iraq-like preventive military strike, with even more alarming regional and global consequences."
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"It's important that the world understands that this is not an Israeli issue, it's a world problem, and the world must stop Iran. At this time, we would hope that the Security Council of the United Nations would impose economic and political sanctions against Iran. Let's be clear: That country cannot, cannot have nuclear weapons."
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The Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II, Sir Winston Churchill rose to power after serving in different posts in liberal and conservative governments for more than three decades. The son of Lord Randolph Churchill and an American mother, Churchill remained Prime Minister and Minister of Defence until 1945, then returned to the position in 1951 until his resignation in 1954. In addition to being a world leader, Churchill was an established author, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953. His memoirs of WWII ran six large volumes alone and his speeches continue to b…
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