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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future. -- Tarja Halonen
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors. -- Frank Gifford
Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time. -- Timothy Garton Ash
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 N. Bradley
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
Nuclear is the single greatest threat. -- Donald Trump
[Nuclear war]... may not be desirable. -- Edwin Meese
Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet. -- Taylor Hanson
Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation -- William Sloane Coffin
Nuclear war can ruin your whole compile. -- Karl Lehenbauer
Nuclear war would really set back cable. -- Ted Turner
The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity. -- Dr. John
Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s. -- Jerry Brown
Nuclear weapons can be dismantled, but they cannot be uninvented. -- Martin Rees
Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world. -- Ban Ki-moon
Nuclear power is an important part of our domestic fuel mix. -- Michael C. Burgess
Nuclear physics is interesting but it is unlikely to help society. -- John Cameron
Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water -- Albert Einstein
Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind. -- Bernard Lown
Nuclear DNA encodes all the proteins and enzymes that make you you, basically. -- Hendrik Poinar
I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America. -- Nelson DeMille
Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy. -- Bill Gates
Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all. -- T. Boone Pickens
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes. -- David Foster Wallace
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA, et cetera, had worked out what allowable releases are. -- William Scranton
Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back. -- Stewart Udall
Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations. -- Ban Ki-moon
Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry. -- Michael C. Burgess
Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian - U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that. -- Charles Horner
Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult. -- Naoto Kan
Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry. -- Michael C. Burgess
Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security. -- Ban Ki-moon
Nuclear war would mean abolition of most comforts, and disruption of normal routines, for children and adults alike. -- Willard Libby
Nuclear transplantation is a technique that has enormously facilitated the analysis of these interactions between nucleus and cytoplasm. -- John Gurdon
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.) -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror. -- George Wald
Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons. -- Herman Kahn
Nuclear-armed Iran ought to be a major concern. And they're moving forward. We have got to roll that back. -- Steve Scalise
Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear. -- Ban Ki-moon
We have to be extremely vigilant and extremely careful when it comes to nuclear. Nuclear changes the whole ball game. -- Donald Trump
Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity. -- Herman Kahn
Nuclear weaponry, of course, would be the be-all, end-all of just too many people in too many parts of our planet. -- Sarah Palin
I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all. -- James Lovelock
Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism. -- Ban Ki-moon
[Nuclear weapons] now I think I mentioned around 27,000 and during the Cold War the total global arsenal was on the order of 70,000. -- John Burroughs
Energy security based on clean & reliable sources is essential for India's future. Nuclear energy has a key role in India's energy strategy. -- Narendra Modi
Nuclear arms kill many people all at once, but other weapons kill many people, little by little, every day, everywhere in the world. -- Oscar Arias Sanchez
Nuclear arms kill many people all at once, but other weapons kill many people, little by little, every day, everywhere in the world. -- Oscar Arias Sanchez
Nuclear power and fossil fuels are the choices of the past. Renewable energy is the choice of the future that is here today. -- Hermann Scheer
Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free. -- Nathan Myhrvold
Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary. -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. -- Margaret Thatcher
A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union. -- Lee H. Hamilton
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- Omar N. Bradley
The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards. -- Billy Connolly
When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn't producing any more. -- Noam Chomsky
For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place. -- William S. Cohen
India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. -- Winston Churchill
India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished. -- Eisaku Sato
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five. -- Carl Sagan
The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real. -- Tony Blair
A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages. -- Herman Kahn
One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up. -- Jeff Goodell
I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming. -- Stephen Hawking
Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy. -- Michael Burgess
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. -- Marilyn French
I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born. -- David Baltimore
I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive. -- Adam Ant
The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews. -- Jane Smiley
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
The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace. -- Mahmoud Darwish
Now, as far as I know, nobody has ever put up the U.S.'s nuclear missiles on the Internet. I mean, it's not something I've heard about. -- Aaron Swartz
Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme. -- Vladimir Putin
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. -- Margaret Mead
Whether the issue was black political power or nuclear power, Scott-Heron didn't mince words. His comeback record, 'I'm New Here,' doesn't mince words either, but instead of political battles, these songs suggest he's fighting personal ones. -- Will Hermes
Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we have not received any such information from our partners as yet. -- Vladimir Putin
It never ceases to amaze me that every second of every day, more than 6,000 billion neutrinos coming from nuclear reactions inside the sun whiz through my body, almost all of which will travel right through the earth without interruption. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness. -- Max von Sydow
Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place. -- Colin Powell
If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family. -- Donna Reed
Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar spent on making the world a comparatively dirtier and a more dangerous place, because nuclear power and nuclear weapons go hand in hand. -- Mark Z. Jacobson
We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us. -- Haile Selassie
The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed adults munching cupcakes like demoralized zombies I attend, I realize this is what my friends who conceived before me meant by, 'You just won't care.' -- Emma McLaughlin
The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon. -- Kim Dae Jung
I have been very encouraged by President Obama's call to action on climate change both at his Inauguration and in the State of the Union Address. This is a global imperative. I also welcome President Obama's intention to pursue reductions in nuclear arsenals. -- Ban Ki-moon
Nuclear power is a young technology - there's so much more to be discovered. That's what makes it so exciting to me. Yes, there are problems, but innovative people are going to be able to come up with solutions and bring the technology to its full potential. -- Leslie Dewan
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. -- Stanley Kubrick
As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if they are trying to develop nuclear weapons or not. Chances are they're developing what's called 'nuclear capability,' which many states have. That is the ability to have nuclear weapons if they decide to do it. That's not a crime. -- Noam Chomsky
In early 1961 a new president, John F. Kennedy, was told by military leaders and civilian officials that the Kingdom of Laos - of no conceivable strategic importance to the U.S. - required the presence of American troops and perhaps even tactical nuclear weapons. Why? Because if Laos fell, Asia would go red from Thailand to Indonesia. -- Jeff Greenfield
Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of Yellowstone hot springs, in the cracks of permanent ice sheets, in the cooling waters of nuclear reactors, miles beneath the Earth's crust, in pure salt crystals, and inside the rocks of the dry valleys of Antarctica. -- Jill Tarter
Underway on nuclear power. -- Eugene P. Wilkinson
I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear. -- Naoto Kan
I hate people. People make me pro-nuclear. -- Margaret Smith
The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence. -- Joseph Rotblat
Supports pre-emption policy to prevent nuclear proliferation. -- Fred Thompson
Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy. -- James Dyson
Human race cannot coexist with nuclear weapons -- Iccho Itoh
The era of nuclear terrorism has arrived. -- Liam Fox
I want a man with nuclear power. -- Carla Bruni
Today, India is a nuclear weapons state. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Today, India is a nuclear weapons state. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend. -- John Travolta
The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television. -- Dave Barry
I made a nuclear reactor when I was 14 -- Taylor Wilson
Nobody wants any country to have nuclear weapons. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Guns, grendels, or nuclear bombs; take your pick. -- James Rollins
We are categorically against proliferation of nuclear weapons. -- Sergei Lavrov
Only nuclear power can now halt global warming. -- James Lovelock
In nuclear war all men are cremated equal. -- Dexter Gordon
The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling. -- Walter Goodman
Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics. -- Lee H. Hamilton
Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb. -- Arundhati Roy
the use of nuclear weapons is Iran's right. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal. -- Dexter Gordon
Unfortunately, nuclear weapons have become identified with state power. -- John Burroughs
I'm worried about the world because of nuclear proliferation. -- Michael Bloomberg

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