Quotes and Sayings about Nuclear Weapons

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth - rocks!

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparallel catastrophe.

The only thing that will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons is regime change in Tehran.

As long as weapons of mass destruction exist, primarily nuclear weapons, the danger is colossal. All nations should declare... that nuclear weapons must be destroyed. This is to save ourselves and our planet.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many.

Our republic is a responsible nuclear state that, as we made clear before, will not use nuclear weapons first unless aggressive hostile forces use nuclear weapons to invade on our sovereignty.

North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries of dictatorships or whatever: if you don't want to be invaded by America, get some nuclear weapons.

The total elimination of nuclear weapons remains the highest disarmament priority of the United Nations.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

Lawyers are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

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.

If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this?

The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs.

You know, mankind's been trying to kill each other off since the beginning of time; now, we finally have the power to finish the job.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

What if Einstein's parents had held him back? We wouldn't even have the... - I was gonna say "atomic bomb", but there's probably a better example.

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

The world is very very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table.
I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.