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"Just listen to what Mr. [Donald] Trump has to say and make your own judgment with respect to how confident you feel about his ability to manage things like our nuclear triad."
"Now that Iran's actions have been verified, it can begin to receive relief from certain nuclear sanctions and gain access to its own money that had been frozen."
"Every nuclear bomb is an Auschwitz waiting to happen."
"The fact is that there is now, we know well, a proliferation of nuclear weapons, and that many weapons that Saddam Hussein had, we don't know where they are. That means terrorists have access to all of that."
"We are heading towards catastrophe. I think the world is going to pieces. I am very pessimistic. Why? Because the world hasn't been punished yet, and the only punishment that could be adequate is the nuclear destruction of the world."
"Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race."
"The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war."
"The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?"
"If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off."
"Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse"
"If we reduced the amount we spend on maintaining our nuclear weapons by a small fraction, we could reallocate those funds to improve kids' health care and schooling."
"Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations."
"It is most gratifying," it said, "that your enthusiasm for our planet continues unabated, and so we would like to assure you that the guided missiles currently converging with your ship are part of a special service we extend to all of our most enthusiastic clients, and the fully armed nuclear warheads are of course merely a courtesy detail. We look forward to your custom in future lives ... thank you."
"The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity."
"[Not achieving a nuclear test ban] would have to be classed as the greatest disappointment of any administration of any decade, of any time and of any party."
"As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase."
"North Korea conducted a nuclear test and the blast was so small that many scientists are saying it was a dud. Apparently, the nuclear bomb didn't work well because it was made in Korea."
"We are one with God and He loves us. Now if that isn't a hazard to this country-How're we gonna keep building nuclear weapons?"
"Mistakes are made in every other human endeavor. Why should nuclear weapons be exempt?"
"Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel."
