These nuclear quotes will inspire you. Nuclear relates to the nucleus of an atom or relating to the nucleus of a cell.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging nuclear quotes, nuclear sayings, and nuclear proverbs.
Best Nuclear Quotes
- “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.” Frank Zappa
- “Of course I’ve got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I’ve got em ’cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.” Danny DeVito
- “We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and give us more democracies, and democracies never war with other democracies, but the other side of the sword could give us nuclear proliferation, biogerms and even forces of darkness.” Michio Kaku
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“The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs.” Kim Jong-un
- “Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar spent on making the world a comparatively dirtier and a more dangerous place, because nuclear power and nuclear weapons go hand in hand.” Mark Z. Jacobson
- “Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.” Michael C. Burgess
- “Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.” Uri Geller , Nuclear quotes war
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“A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.” Margaret Thatcher
- “Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.” Bill Gates
- “I feel like I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be, which is both settling and terrifying. The roller coaster is going, and there is no jumping off at this point unless I just go nuclear. It’s a really interesting part of the whole journey.” Jay Ellis
- “The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.” Condoleezza Rice
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“In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.” Dexter Gordon
- “Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.” Stephen Hawking
- “When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans – an avian flu pandemic.” Barack Obama
- “I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.” Stephen Hawking
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“Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.” George Wald
- “Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.” Omar N. Bradley
- “A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills – no, no. They’d make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.” Robin Williams
- “The only countries that have successfully moved from fossil fuels to low-carbon power have done so with the help of nuclear energy.” Michael Shellenberger
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“A nuclear power reactor is just a fancy way of boiling water.” Leslie Dewan
- “The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination. “Michael Leunig
- “Communism counts its opportunities in terms of decades – not of weeks. Its means of aggression consist not only of nuclear weapons and missiles with enormous boosters, and not only of spies, agents and terrorists, but of great masses of men and women, deluded by a common ideology which inspires them with a false hope.” Robert Kennedy
- “We should not just consume hydrocarbon fuel but use it to develop nuclear energy, hydro power and renewable energy sources.” Vladimir Putin
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“Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.” Daisaku Ikeda
- “An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.” Elon Musk
- “Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.” Thich Nhat Hanh
- “The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.” Chung Mong-joon
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“Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.” Frank Gifford
- “We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.” Lal Bahadur Shastri
- “To respond to North Korea by having our own nuclear weapons will not maintain peace on the Korean Peninsula and could lead to a nuclear arms race in Northeast Asia.” Moon Jae-in
- “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.” Michael Moore
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“There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.” Noam Chomsky
- “Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we’re spending in Pakistan, we’re spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?” Joe Biden
- “As expanding economies continue to grow, the one source of energy that we can develop rapidly, cheaply and with next-to-no emissions is nuclear energy.” Craig Stevens
- “As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.” Sylvia Earle
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“A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.” Zac Goldsmith
- “I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It’s kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing.” Martha Smith
- “Jupiter is so big and its gravitational pull so strong that man would find it difficult to move about on the surface. The answer is to whittle it down to proper size with terra jet and nuclear power, using the debris to increase the size of Jupiter’s moons so they, too, can be colonized.” Fritz Zwicky
- “Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we’re going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.” Bill Gates
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“Although September 11 was horrible, it didn’t threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.” Stephen Hawking
- “Nuclear energy is a baseload – meaning it’s power that you can run any time you want, day or night – and carbon-free.” Nathan Myhrvold
- “I grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, which is my hometown. In Los Alamos is, for people who don’t know, a nuclear lab that built the atomic bomb. The only reason the town exists is to make nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, and that’s still happening there.” Drew Goddard
- “We live in a very uncertain world, and I think that uncertainty of itself generates an environment which we should not make a decision that deprives future generations of the deterrent effect that the nuclear weapons have provided for us and for almost all of my life.” Des Browne
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“The purpose of nuclear weapons is to deter. The mission of deterrence to make all parties in possession of nuclear weapons never, ever use them.” Rick Wilson
- “It’s ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous.” Pierre Schaeffer
- “In reality, Chernobyl proves why nuclear is the safest way to make electricity. In the worst nuclear power accidents, relatively small amounts of particulate matter escape, harming only a handful of people.” Michael Shellenberger
- “There is no question we need an energy policy overhaul in America. A key part of that overhaul must include moving forward aggressively with expanding nuclear energy as a renewable energy source. Storing nuclear waste is an important piece of that effort.” Erik Paulsen
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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
- “Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever-present.” Mikhail Gorbachev
- “The total elimination of nuclear weapons remains the highest disarmament priority of the United Nations.” Antonio Guterres
- “Nuclear power is a young technology – there’s so much more to be discovered. That’s what makes it so exciting to me. Yes, there are problems, but innovative people are going to be able to come up with solutions and bring the technology to its full potential.” Leslie Dewan
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“The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we’re going to use it.” Peter T. King
- “We are ‘nuclear waste’ from the fuel that makes stars shine; indeed, each of us contains atoms whose provenance can be traced back to thousands of different stars spread through our Milky Way.” Martin Rees
- “Without my services, Pakistan would never have been the first Muslim nuclear nation. We were able to achieve the capability under very tough circumstances, but we did it.” Abdul Qadeer Khan
- “This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.” Joseph Rotblat
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“Nuclear physics is interesting but it is unlikely to help society.” John Cameron
- “South Korea was able to build its national security thanks to the U.S., and the two nations will work together on the North Korean nuclear issue. However, I believe we need to be able to take the lead on matters in the Korean Peninsula as the country directly involved.” Moon Jae-in
- “For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidized. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted halfway to eternity.” James Buchan
- “I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.” Justin Cronin
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“This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.” Joe Biden
- “From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth’s ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age – but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process.” Herman Kahn
- “When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.” Jimmy Carter
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“All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.” Ronald Reagan
- “I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.” Stanley Kubrick
- “Alongside energy efficiency, renewables and abatement, I believe safe nuclear power, with manageable waste, can play an important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as long as it is cost competitive with other low carbon generation.” Ed Davey
