Mohamed ElBaradei Quotes

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

I have a little hope that the nuclear holocaust doesn't happen.

I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.

I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.

In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.

It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.

A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.

The lesson of history is when a war starts every nation will ultimately use whatever weapon it has available. ... Therefore, we must expect that if another war — a serious war — breaks out, we will use nuclear energy in some form.

Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.

To have the ability to destroy all and not to do it was one of the hard tests humanity passed - but only just - in the middle of the twentieth century.

My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

A nuclear weapon is not just a football that you can use at will.

Limiting nuclear war is like limiting the mission of a match thrown in a keg of gunpowder.

Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological nation plans for it.

I would not recommend the use of any atomic weapon, no matter how small, when both sides have the power to destroy the world.

We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.

This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.

Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact.

If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry.

One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

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.