Harold Urey Quotes

I say in all sincerity that the nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons; their existence only adds to our perils because of the illusions which they have generated.

In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere.

We have a moral imperative to keep up the search for something better than mutual assured destruction.

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

We can do better than condone a world in which nuclear weapons are accepted as commonplace.

We will use nuclear weapons whenever it serves our vital interests.

I remember some of the limited debate I did back in high school in the late '70s, early '80s: nuclear proliferation was always the big topic, and it's bad. We don't want to see it.

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.

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.

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

As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others.

So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.

Nuclear weapons are infinitely less important in our foreign policy than they were in the days of the Cold War. I don't think we need nuclear weapons any longer.

Everyone knows that Israel has nuclear weapons, but no one is talking about it. The world doesn't want nuclear weapons - not in Israel, not in the Middle East and not anywhere in the world.

So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.

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

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared.

Nut With A Nuke

Nuclear weapons are what make us a great power.

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

The way to win an atomic war is to make sure it never starts.

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