"A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills, no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while."
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"The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb."
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"Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice and righteousness. We must seek to remove conditions of poverty, injustice, and racial discrimination."
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"Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger."
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"Someone threw a petrol bomb at Alex Higgins once and he drank it!"
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"I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done."
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"Iran was nearing completion of a new reactor capable of producing plutonium for a bomb."
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"Over more than a decade, Iran had moved ahead with its nuclear program. And before the deal, it had installed nearly 20,000 centrifuges that could enrich uranium for a nuclear bomb."
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"Every nuclear bomb is an Auschwitz waiting to happen."
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"No kind of bomb ever built will extinguish hatred."
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"Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid."
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"The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?"
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"Having the equivalent of 150,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs at the ready does nothing to protect us from terrorists planning to sneak in a bomb through a cargo container."
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"We have to reserve the right to bomb the niggers."
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"Many of the points made by the antiwar movement have been consciously assimilated by the Pentagon and its lawyers and advisers. Precision weaponry is good in itself, but its ability to discriminate is improving and will continue to improve. Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect."
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"Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect."
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"It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]"
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"I feel that the whole Western World will benefit by the resurrection of the neutron bomb project."
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"You’re the one always beside me when a bomb going to explode."
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"Voldemort’s fury at the fall of his last, best lieutenant exploded with the force of a bomb."
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