NO-NUKES
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The sheer folly of trying
to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone
capable of rational thought. Nuclear capability must be reduced to zero, globally,
permanently. There is no other option.
-- Queen
Noor of Jordan |
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The single biggest threat
that we face is a nuclear weapon or some weapon of mass destruction. What that
means is that we have to be extraordinarily aggressive and vigilant in controlling
nuclear proliferation.
-- Barack
Obama | It
did not take atomic weapons to make man want peace, a peace that would last. But
the atomic bomb was
the turn of the screw. It has made the prospect of future war unendurable.
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer
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The foes
now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification,
drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten
all nations, just as science and information are the potential friends of all
nations. Classical diplomacy and strategy were aimed at identifying enemies and
confronting them. Now they have to identify dangers, global or local, and tackle
them before they become disasters.
-- Shimon Peres |  |
“Today--on
what happens to be the 30th anniversary of the talks that led to the Limited Test
Ban Treaty -- I declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that
we will eventually see the time when the number of nuclear weapons is down to
zero and the world is a much better place.”
-- General Colin Powell, US Army
(June 10, 1993) We
seek the elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.
-- Ronald Reagan
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"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 |
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Extending social and
economic development throughout the world and eliminating nuclear weapons from
military arsenals are two fundamental prerequisites to replacing the culture of
war with a culture of peace, and building true security for all the world's people.
-- Douglas
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"Nuclear disarmament
is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of
the United Nations. It is a legal commitment ... for the sake of humanity - we
must get rid of all nuclear weapons."
-- Joseph
Rotblat Indeed,
the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted
unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.
-- Joseph
Rotblat If
the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons
for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly
insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy
for disaster.
-- Joseph
Rotblat |
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If you are religious,
then remember that this bomb is man's challenge to God. It's worded quite simply:
We have the power to destroy everything you have created. If you're not religious,
then look at it this way. This world of ours is four thousand, six hundred million
years old. It could end in an afternoon.
-- Arundhati
Roy |  |
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" This
idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which
no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.
-- Bertrand
Russell | No-Nukes
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