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Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.


Herman Kahn

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JOSEPH ROTBLAT The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.
CHUNG MONG-JOON Often people are united, not as much for the sake of truth, as for the enemy that is common.
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KIM JONG-UN We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.
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LARRY SNYDER The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also cre...
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JOSEPH ROTBLAT My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, an...
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LEE MYUNG-BAK Such plans do not limit, but in fact promote efforts by others to develop (nuclear weapons),
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AYUB KHAN We have an active program ... we have nuclear weapons, we are a nuclear power, ... We have an advanc...
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JIM MATHESON Much as Cold War nuclear strategists could argue about winning a nuclear war by having more survivor...
JAMAIS CASCIO Committed to seeking a peaceful Korean Peninsula that is free of nuclear weapons.
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JEAN ZIEGLER Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those thin...
ALGERNON SYDNEY Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those thin...
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ARYE MEKEL Many greeted the truth as an enemy. And freedom as well.
SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current co...
MITCHELL REISS Nuclear Weapons aren't much of a threat, today; compared to Families of the world, going Nuclear.
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HERMAN HESSE It is not down in any map, true places never are.
HERMAN MELVILLE In glades they meet skull after skull
Where pine cones lay-the rusted gun,
Green shoes full of...
HERMAN MELVILLE Life was a colorful painful pageant to her, in which right and wrong were wobbly yardsticks. Values ...
HERMAN WOUK Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives.....
HERMAN WOUK Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the gr...
HERMAN MELVILLE African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservat...
HERMAN CAIN Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught tha...
HERMAN MELVILLE We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with others; and along those fibers,...
HERMAN MELVILLE Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!
HERMAN MELVILLE