Abdul Qadeer Khan Quotes

We were able and we had a plan to launch nuclear test in 1984, but then President General Zia had opposed the move.

You look at Russia's doing with their nuclear capability and the newness of their capability, and look at we're - what we're doing, and nobody wants to do that with respect to nukes because nukes are horrible. But you have countries that are going out of their way to do things that we're not doing. And we have to be very, very careful.

We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who are in a security bind, if you like, or perceive themselves to be in security bind to look for acquisition of nuclear weapons.

Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program.

When it comes to nuclear technology, the Iranian people are very sensitive. It is a part of our national pride, and nuclear technology has become indigenous.

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.

The greatest achievement of America in the last 70 years has been the prevention of a post Nagasaki nuclear proliferation.

The atomic issue was a natural path into political issues.

I view current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary and dreadfully dangerous, creating unacceptable risks to other nations and to our own"

For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.

The worst part of what we heard Donald [trump] say has been about nuclear weapons. He has said repeatedly that he didn't care if other nations got nuclear weapons, Japan, South Korea, even Saudi Arabia. It has been the policy of the United States, Democrats and Republicans, to do everything we could to reduce the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

I know that a world in which countries are stockpiling nuclear weapons and using them in the ways that India and Pakistan and America do to oppress others and to deceive their own people is a dangerous world.

As far as the nuclear is concerned, I agree. It is the single greatest threat that this country has.

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

I say the word N-U-C-L-E-R the same way that George W. Bush says it.

The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.

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.

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

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.

The whole nuclear thing is a terrible mess and it's hard for me to understand why it is that we, the United States, seem to be the only ones that are really particularly concerned about it and prepared to do something.

The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.

The Libyan program recently discovered was far more extensive than was assessed prior to that.

Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling.

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