«Nuclear weapons»

What is the only provocation that could bring about the use of nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the priority target for nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the only established defense against nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. How do we prevent the use of nuclear weapons? By threatening the use of nuclear weapons. And we can’t get rid of nuclear weapons, because of nuclear weapons. The intransigence, it seems, is a function of the weapons themselves.

(Einstein’s Monsters)

Martin Amis

“Einstein’s Monsters,“ by the way, refers to nuclear weapons, but also to ourselves. We are Einstein’s monsters, not fully human, not for now.

(Einstein’s Monsters)

Martin Amis

For the sake of future generations, we must continue to work together to realise a world without nuclear weapons.

John Roos

I still believe that any country understands that if they use nuclear weapons, they will be wiped out of existence. They could be irrational in many ways, but I don’t think they’re irrational to the point that they’re ready to annihilate their own country.

Mohamed ElBaradei

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.

Joseph Rotblat

We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.

Herman Kahn

There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one.

Joseph Rotblat

I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there is no margin for error?

Lincoln Chafee

The thought that human beings are considering saving lives by killing millions of their fellow human beings is so preposterous that the words ’saving life’ have lost all of their meaning. One of the most tragic facts of our century is that this ’No’ to nuclear weapons has been spoken so seldom, so softly, and by so few.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin.

Jenny Shipley

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Ronald Reagan

So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.

Daisaku Ikeda

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

Omar Nelson Bradley