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"Nuclear weapons are so destructive and ballistic missiles are so swift, that any substantially increased possibility of their use or any sudden change in their deployment may well be regarded as a definite threat to peace."
"Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history."
"Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?"
"If the nuclear dossier is referred to the U. N. Security Council, Iran will have to resume uranium enrichment."
"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."
"It is the foremost responsibility of the United States, having been the predominant nuclear power, to take the lead in scaling this back and making good on its signed and sealed and ratified obligation in Article 6 of the non-proliferation treaty going back to '68 to eliminate this nuclear arsenal. That's a serious international obligation."
"Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s."
"Unfortunately, nuclear weapons have become identified with state power."
"The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will possess nuclear or even thermonuclear weapons."
"Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe."
"Israel has a sizeable nuclear arsenal and could retaliate if it were attacked."
"You cannot cause disproportionate damage to the environment; you cannot harm neutral states. The court said that the threat or use of nuclear weapons is generally contrary to the international law of armed conflict."
"By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction."
"They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition."
"Iran's nuclear program . . . there was going to be a time limit . . ."
"Iran won't pursue nuclear weapons because 'it's contrary to their faith.'"
"Essentially, Iran was sanctioned because of what had happened at Fordow, its unwillingness to comply with previous U.N. security resolutions about their nuclear program, and as part of the package of sanctions that was slapped on them, the issue of arms and ballistic missiles were included."
"Iran will for sure have pledged to the international community that it will not develop a nuclear weapon, and now will be subject to an additional protocol, a more vigorous inspection and monitoring regime that lasts in perpetuity."
"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."
"The bottom line is this - whereas Iran was steadily expanding its nuclear program, we have now cut off every single path that Iran could have used to build a bomb."
