Overwhelming nuclear strength cannot stop a guerrilla war.
John F. Kennedy
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This attack was in Tel Aviv. Tomorrow, it may be in Berlin or in Paris or in London - countries that may vote against Iran on the issue its nuclear program.
Raanan Gissin
It's no good if we go ahead and switch off safe nuclear plants...and increase our energy prices that way.
Michael Glos
There are a lot of parallels between coal and nuclear energy. The plants are really expensive to build and there's an issue about disposing of large amounts of [carbon dioxide] waste that could get really costly.
Mark Morey
The main concern to Iran's reaction isn't the U.S., but that Israel could decide to bomb the nuclear plant. Stability in the area depends on who's in charge in Israel.
Anette Einarsen
No chance they will ever see the fruits of a nuclear program.
Yuval Steinitz
The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all.
Gen Charles Horner
The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.
Walter Goodman
By 2020 the market for nuclear power generation is expected to grow 50 per cent compared to 2005. Toshiba is responding to this challenge by acquiring Westinghouse.
Atsutoshi Nishida
Continued instability in Iraq is hampering America's plans for the Middle East. Iran is ready to use its Iraq card to protect its nuclear achievements before it is too late.
Saeed Leylaz
We are not committed to building one. But we want to keep the nuclear option open.
Richard Zuercher
Iran is determined to use peaceful nuclear technology and no intimidation or threat can make us give it up.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
I do not think Chinese power producers are going to rush into nuclear power because it's the 'in' thing.
Joseph Jacobelli
You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.
John Travolta
There are no nuclear tests planned or desired.
Irene Smith
We will not step back one inch from our obvious right (to nuclear technology).
Ali Hosseinitash
If this attack is launched soon, ... the devastation to the American economy alone could easily far exceed that of the September 11 attacks and could be equivalent to the detonation of a small nuclear device on American soil.
Christopher Brown
Iran is ready to transfer nuclear know-how to the Islamic countries due to their need.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
There will be no need for the DPRK to keep a single nuclear weapon if the DPRK-US relations are normalized, bilateral confidence is built and the DPRK is not exposed to the US nuclear threat any longer.
Choe Su Hon
Iran's withdrawal from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty would be a protest against America and its allies' blackmail.
Hossein Shariatmadari
I think the inherent right of the Government to lie to save itself when facing a nuclear disaster is basic.
Arthur Sylvester
We're going to need all forms of energy production, including more coal and nuclear. Despite the Bush administration's support for clean coal technologies, the US is not investing anywhere near what will be needed to make this work.
Vicki Arroyo
They have learned the lesson of North Korea. Once you have nuclear weapons, the US saber-rattling becomes much less. After all, with North Korea you have a genuine madman in control of a country with the bomb and yet we don't hear very much about them at all.
Larry Johnson
Kennedy was very sensitive to this question of ever using nuclear weapons.
Robert Dallek
National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.
Jacques Chirac
In principal, having carrier capability is desirable and ditto for nuclear propulsion. An aircraft carrier is all about presence and adds to the navy's capability.
C. Uday Bhaskar
It is not in our [India's] interest to have more nuclear powers in our vicinity.
Ram Madhav
There are very few African-American nuclear operators. It's important to me to break the stereotypes of what we can or can't do.
Rob Howard
Our country needs these advanced nuclear plants. We must reduce our dependence on imported foreign energy.
Marilyn Kray
We also will take the lead in the international community to promote ... nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation and do our best to abolish nuclear weapons.
Junichiro Koizumi
We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
Richard Lugar
It is no surprise nations like South Korea are beginning to hedge their bets in light of the North Korean nuclear weapons advances.
Joseph Cirincione
Why did our services forego nuclear capability? ... The answer is that the nuclear weapon specialty was recognized as a military career kiss of death.
John Richter
Japan is the only country in the world which suffered from the scourge of nuclear weapons.
Yoshiro Mori
We know that nuclear energy is going to expand, so (the capacity limit) needs to be dealt with.
Steve Kraft
The combination of extremist ideology, a warped understanding of reality and nuclear weapons is a combination that no-one in the international community can accept.
Mark Regev
It would look like an area hit by nuclear explosion.
Amr Elnashai
Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.
Norman Thomas
We have the access to the water, which you need for a nuclear plant. We also are situated in an area where there appears to be ample land there for it. I'm hoping that some of those things work to Citrus County's advantage, ... We would be delighted to have another nuclear plant here.
Vicki Phillips
This is a huge problem for the nuclear industry, because it goes without saying it can't afford to make a single mistake.
David Delong
I think we've made very, very clear that Iran needs to take action on the nuclear issue.
Richard Boucher
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
We look forward to the US Congress passing the legislation to enable full civil nuclear energy cooperation between the two countries early next year.
Nicholas Burns
He has revealed information on nuclear spies both inside and outside Iran as well as to families of the suspects.
Jamal Karimirad
The nuclear deal will bring India into the global civil nuclear energy market.
Dennis Kux
This is not an Israeli issue. It's a world problem, and the world must stop Iran. That country cannot have nuclear weapons.
Arye Mekel
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
Frank Zappa
A world free from the nightmare of missiles with a nuclear, chemical, or biological warhead is a world where I would like to live.
Antonio Martino
What we looked at is a conventional ICBM that has the inherent capability of a [nuclear] ICBM, with its accuracy, speed and range, ... Those military characteristics are attractive for a particular set of targets.
Lance Lord
It is time for Israel to take it's nuclear weapons out of the basement and put them on the table.
Joseph Cirincione
They have missiles capable of hitting Japan as well as nuclear weapons that set their sights on Japan.
Seiji Maehara
I can categorically tell you that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program.
Javad Zarif
Iran will today resume nuclear fuel research as scheduled.
Gholamhossein Elham
They want to deprive Islamic nations of having nuclear energy knowledge and always keep them backwards.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
I think you'll have to check with the Europeans as far as what their package will involve; whether it's anything new or whether it's just what they've always made clear, that there were certain benefits in the relationship that wouldn't happen without action by Iran on nuclear and other matters.
Richard Boucher
John is one of these guys that if a nuclear bomb hits, it will be John and cockroaches left as the only survivors.
Kathy Pulley
What happened between Russia and the Ukraine will be an important wakeup call for Europe and countries that were thinking of leaving nuclear aside.
Fatih Birol
The issues and challenges surrounding nuclear non-proliferation are continuously evolving. They've changed dramatically at several junctures in recent memory.
Spencer Abraham
There were no technical or judicial reasons for handing Iran's nuclear dossier to the U.N. Security Council .
Gholamreza Aghazadeh
It's been successfully cheating its way with its nuclear program for something like 20 years, so I think a lot of people will say, 'lets not jump on this and let's not be too hasty'.
Jasper Becker
We think we can actually stop that. We're not accusing them of helping to make weapons. But they are helping store nuclear bombs.
Pete Reilly
Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more than we could ever use in just about 8 minutes. And it's wireless!
William McDonough
The move was politically motivated and followed other aims (than the nuclear dispute).
Javad Vaidi
It imparts a certain momentum to nuclear negotiations with the US. France has played a significant role in what is currently going on between India and the US.
Dilip Lahiri
The comprehensive initiative will lead to a breakthrough in the currently stranded nuclear negotiations with Europe, if the Europeans refrain from any precondition they have set on the negotiations.
Hamid reza Asefi
A group of women unhappy about wars of aggression and about nuclear armaments.
Alice Thompson
Most of the tissues that age ... that we're interested in -- the brain, the heart, the muscle, the kidney, etc. -- those cells never divide at all and they never replicate their nuclear DNA so their telomeres can't get shorter and, therefore, that couldn't affect their longevity.
Doug Wallace
We now know that Saddam [Hussein] has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons.
Dick Cheney
Pure TNT is extraordinarily dangerous and may be linked towards trying to circumvent the process of making a nuclear device.
Magnus Ranstorp
It looks like a nuclear bomb went off.
Jay Powell
It's in the interests of all countries and peoples, but most especially it's in the interests of the North Koreans themselves that the DPRK shed the albatross of its nuclear program and join the international community.
Alexander Vershbow
That together lead to the conclusion Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons capability.
Robert Joseph
The Iranian situation isn't going away. There are dangerous comments coming out of Iran on their nuclear testing and that will keep oil high.
Tetsu Emori
With North Korea reneging on a key issue of the new disarmament agreement, U.S. negotiators are trying to keep the six-party talks going because nuclear brinksmanship makes all nations nervous.
Pamela Falk
We are ready to negotiate on the nuclear issue right now. It's North Korea that's creating the artificial obstacle to progress.
Alexander Vershbow
What the world should fight is the monopoly that some have over weapons of mass destruction and, in particular, nuclear arms.
Ricardo Alarcon
What Georgi did was create the 'nuclear e-mail message,' .
Richard Smith
The capacity of Russia's proposal does not meet all the nuclear energy needs of Iran.
Ali Larijani
It betrayed the public's trust over nuclear energy.
Takeo Hiranuma
I don't think we should turn a blind eye to these important issues just because we are dealing with the nuclear issue.
Peter Brookes
A further deterioration of the situation in Nigeria, or escalation of nuclear brinkmanship with the Iranians, could push the (New York) price of crude further to 70 dollars.
Jason Schenker
We do not accept global nuclear 'apartheid' and scientific 'apartheid'.
Manouchehr Mottaki
Elimination of the nuclear program is not possible, but with the right strikes you could decisively set them back.
Ashton Carter
It's a telephone contact. We're not dropping nuclear weapons on them.
Chris Consorte
We're not going to let people get anywhere near nuclear material. If they come, they're going to die en route.
Linton Brooks
Before any substantial commitment to defend India against China is given, we should recognize that in order to carry out that commitment against any substantial Chinese attack we would have to use nuclear weapons.
Robert S. McNamara
With the nuclear deal, proliferation is out of the way. And for a change, the US is playing fair in its dealings with both India and Pakistan.
Lalit Mansingh
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
John Cheever
To talk of 'a peaceful North Korean nuclear industry' is to talk of an imaginary animal, like a unicorn.
Nicholas Eberstadt
Our concern is the development of weapons from nuclear power and proliferation.
Pete Domenici
He is riding the nuclear wave with great skill to bolster his popularity at home.
Anoush Ehteshami
I am very pleased [Mr Blair] has started a debate on nuclear energy. That's all he's done.
Sir Digby Jones
The most interesting discussion is about political calculations and how Iran weighs the risks and benefits of acquiring nuclear weapons capability.
Gary Samore
If New Delhi decides to vote against the resolution that would definitely put obstacles at least in the nuclear deal signed in July 2005.
Henry Sokolski
This will be a historic event in the Air Force celebrating the successful completion of the Peacekeeper ICBM weapon system's mission of nuclear deterrence.
Michael Carey
We obviously are very bullish on nuclear -- very supportive of the development of the next generation of nuclear power plants.
Rachel Scott
This sends a further strong message to the Islamic Republic of Iran, a message of concern ... and a continuing lack of confidence in Iran's nuclear intentions.
Peter Jenkins
Committed to seeking a peaceful Korean Peninsula that is free of nuclear weapons.
James Kelly
Russia's going to go up nine per cent, to 25 per cent (nuclear), Japan wants to go up 12 per cent, so they'll be 41 per cent nuclear, India, China -- all of them need power. We're going to have a deficiency.
Peter Farmer
They will exchange views on the nuclear issue. We will discuss how to resolve this issue ... properly through dialogue and consultation.
Liu Jianchao
Out administration is fully committed to the India-US civilian nuclear energy agreement.
Nicholas Burns
Growing discontent within the Congress with India's nuclear activities would complicate matters enormously for the advocates of the India-U.S. agreement. Rejection of the deal by the Congress will kill it.
Achin Vanaik
He is one of the preeminent people to build our nuclear capabilities.
Richard Gill
Iran is increasingly moving its nuclear facilities to military sites.
Alireza Jafarzadeh
We didn't chop off his head [during the Gulf War] and he's around, ... He's developing weapons of mass destruction, chemical and biological. We know that within three to five years he'll have nuclear weapons.
Chris Shays
As Japan is the only country that has suffered nuclear attack, it is not acceptable for it to have more nations possessing nuclear arms.
Osamu Miyata
We're not going to put a nuclear power plant where a community does not accept a nuclear power plant.
Bill Habermeyer
China is one of the fastest growth markets for nuclear plants and Westinghouse is one of the largest players in this market. If Toshiba is going to expand, then Westinghouse is a favorable choice.
Takeo Miyamoto
We need 12 years to develop the (full) nuclear cycle.
Prime Minister Yury Yekhanurov
Workable nuclear design.
Gary Milhollin
Iran's right on nuclear fuel, especially enrichment, inside the country has to be guaranteed in any proposal.
Javad Vaidi
For their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms.
Joseph Rotblat
Nuclear fusion has been explored as a potential source of power, but we are not looking at this as an energy source right now.
Yaron Danon
If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.
Bruce Kent
We will only be able to talk about sanctions after we have concrete facts confirming that Iran is not exclusively involved in peaceful nuclear activities.
Mikhail Kamynin
Dangerous, repressive era with a man (Sharif) who has his finger on a nuclear button.
Benazir Bhutto
For me, there is no doubt that the process of producing nuclear fuel in Iran will be accomplished. There is no doubt that we have to carry out uranium enrichment.
Gholamreza Aghazadeh
Maybe not surprisingly, any disturbance in the flow of information across the nuclear membrane can alter cell functioning.
Martin Hetzer
Nuclear power development is a must for China, especially in coastal areas.
Shen Wenquan
We don't need to worry about the Indian nuclear tests if India has agreed not to have these weapons in the first place.
Jesse Helms
Will not live under the threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb.
Yosef Lapid
It doesn't change anything in terms of coming to a solution on what to do about somatic cell nuclear transfer.
Michael Gibbons
I feel that the issue is much more open. There always seem to be those who will be dead opposed -- the history, the linkages to nuclear weapons.
Malcolm Wicks
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
The NRC can now be called the Nuclear Racism Commission.
Kevin Kamps
It is time to bring home to the Iranians that supporting a nuclear weapons program has consequences.
Michael Kraft
We can define a target set that we want to take out in the name of delaying Iran's nuclear development, and we're perfectly capable of taking out that target set.
Flynt Leverett
Nuclear power can never be made inherently safe. There is always a danger. But there's also always a danger with any form of electricity generation. The goal is to have that risk managed to an acceptably low level.
David Lochbaum
Maybe, the West also knows about our nuclear resources and wants to weaken our capabilities and hence this nuclear deal.
Rajnath Singh
In my opinion, a nuclear rocket is an enabling technology for humans to go to Mars.
Steve Howe
Nuclear weapons can wipe out life on Earth, if used properly.
Gareth Owen
Why else would it be here? My son was not flying nuclear bomb planes in the 1960s.
Scott Finestone
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
Omar Bradley
They have done negotiations but never with abolition in mind in fact we are making more nuclear weapons here, the Americans, the Russians, the French, the Chinese are probably the same.
Bruce Kent
[Gen. Lord said the nuclear deterrence mission has not changed.] We're with a 500 [missile] day-to-day high-alert force that is our deterrent capability that this nation depends on every day, ... We're proud to do that, until told otherwise.
Lance Lord
The adoption of a commitment on ending cooperation with this or that state in some sphere lies exclusively in the competence of the UN Security Council. Up to now, the Security Council has taken no decision on ending cooperation with Iran in nuclear energy.
Mikhail Kamynin
In a way, you can think of it as a nuclear battery. It's very rugged and has no moving parts.
Alice Caponiti
We urge the DPRK not to restart its frozen nuclear facilities, including the five-megawatt reactor.
Lou Fintor
Nuclear energy in Iran is a scientific and peaceful activity, being of high significance for the nation.
Ayatollah Kashani
International pressure on Iran proves that (its nuclear activities) are not only Israel's problem.
Dan Halutz
You've got wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, biomass, nuclear.
Carl Nellis
Chaos in North Korea is still seen as the most likely scenario for some 'adventurism' with conventional or nuclear weapons.
Rodger Baker
If you (the Europeans) are really honest and worried that Iran may obtain nuclear weapons, there are better ways to gain confidence.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Up to now, the Security Council has taken no decision on ending cooperation with Iran in nuclear energy.
Mikhail Kamynin
As catastrophic as a nuclear attack would be, it would be self-contained.
Henry Crumpton
We're finding broad agreement throughout the international community that Iran should re-suspend its sensitive nuclear fuel cycle activities and cooperate fully with the IAEA.
Matthew Boland
I definitely have more respect for the hazards of nuclear power.
Chris Henry
Iran has every right for enrichment ... for peaceful use of nuclear energy.
Alexander Rumyantsev
That's one of the great things about this document. It clearly distinguishes between somatic cell nuclear transfer as a tool and any kind of reproductive cloning.
Martin Pera
If the deal leads to commercial development of nuclear energy, then it would would be beneficial to the country in the long run.
Jigar Shah
Our nuclear activities are open and very transparent. Our military activities are all legal.
Ali Yunesi
There will not be a single nuclear waste site.
Volodymyr Lytvyn
This is a highly complex deal and on balance it is not in the national security interests of the US. It will damage the nuclear non proliferation regime.
Daryl Kimball
Anyone with a business like Westinghouse, one of the major providers of nuclear equipment, has got to be an attractive purchase. The idea of owning that kind of company is a good idea given the current environment.
Andrew Moulder
Reality is our best friend - everything indicates that nuclear power should be used more.
Lars Leijonborg
We agreed members of the [Non-Proliferation Treaty] have right [sic] to peaceful nuclear energy.
Ali Larijani
Jim Gibbons has maintained the status quo by supporting tax breaks for utilities to continue producing energy from coal, natural gas and even nuclear energy.
Dina Titus
I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.
Dick Cheney
They totally took advantage of us. They were storing like they wanted to fill a bunker for a nuclear disaster.
Ann Stevenson
The dangerous myth that nuclear energy is a clean alternative.
Brian Lowery
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
Omar Bradley
Never before or since, ... has the world been brought so close to nuclear war.
Donald Kagan
As we understand it, the U.S. Navy's basic policy is to deploy nuclear-powered ships from now on, ... We feel that this (decision) cannot be helped.
Hiroyuki Hosoda
I don't want India to become a nuclear supplier to Indonesia and the Middle East.
Rep. Rob Andrews
Why not have your nuclear bombs in your briefcase? All of these policies that America upholds, nuclear weapons, privatization, all of these things are going to mutate and metamorphosis into these dangerous things.
Arundhati Roy
Nuclear power is not the answer to climate change ? it's costly, dangerous and a terrorist target.
Stephen Tindale
The unfolding petro-nuclear Iran debacle laced with faith-based overtones is making the average investor quite nervous these days.
Jon Nadler
It is a validation of the optimism that the nuclear industry has of the economic viability of nuclear power.
Marilyn Kray
It's conceivable that they are exaggerating their progress, but I don't have any knowledge to confirm that. ... This is a very, very high priority, acquiring information about their nuclear program.
John Negroponte
Clearly, it is the most horrific nuclear accident in history, and there's no getting around that, ... [But] it is not something that is so devastating that it can't be managed, and this report points out is that the situation is manageable.
Fred Mettler
While under U.S. sanctions, it?s impossible to sit face-to-face and discuss abandoning our nuclear deterrent.
Rodong Sinmun
Russia does not want to have another nuclear power in its region.
Francois Heisbourg
Canada is abandoning its 40- to 50-year traditional diplomatic approach in how to deal with the dangers of nuclear weapons.
Lloyd Axworthy
One can speak of sanctions only after the appearance of concrete facts proving that Iran is not engaged exclusively in peaceful nuclear activities.
Mikhail Kamynin
The signs are that Russia has no interest in seeing Iran with a nuclear bomb.
Alexander Rahr
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
Sir Winston Churchill
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the Defense Ministry control all the levers of the nuclear program, and there's no point begging Iran to come back to the negotiating table.
Alireza Jafarzadeh
Rather than increasing fuel costs to pay for nuclear the government should be investing in renewable energy.
Norman Baker
Our people are not going to allow their nuclear rights to be seized.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
The Bush Administration should cease pretending that China's involvement in Iranian nuclear weapons negotiations has been constructive and publicly question China's motives.
John Tkacik
Iran has the right to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
Hassan Wirajuda
It offers access to civilian nuclear energy, it protects your strategic program and it mainstreams India. India couldn't have hoped for a better deal.
Amitabh Mattoo
FTIs, originally developed for cancer, are capable of reversing the dramatic nuclear structure abnormalities that are the hallmark of cells from children with progeria.
Francis Collins
Iran will not bend. Iran will be a nuclear fuel producer and supplier within a decade.
Cyrus Nasseri
If we do go to war, probably as soon as the war begins the markets will take a lift, as they did in the Gulf War. If it's short and successful, the markets could rise, but if it's not -- or if there are nuclear, chemical or biological attacks -- it could be negative for the markets. It would be a huge blow to confidence.
Michelle Clayman
We should not allow the Iranian nuclear issue to be referred to the Security Council.
Mehdi Karrubi
If this weapon had worked, it would have been the equivalent of a nuclear weapon in the ancient world.
Peter Rees
This merger would give General Dynamics a permanent monopoly in nuclear submarines and would substantially lessen competition in surface combatants.
Charles A. James
It will also provide a 'hit' on people who have undergone nuclear medicine treatments.
Jim Kosciuk
The BJP would like the UPA government to clarify that whether such a separation does not amount to capping our nuclear resources.
Prakash Javadekar
In a carbon-constrained world ... nuclear plants have got to be in that mix.
Andy White
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