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The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence.


Joseph Rotblat

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We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.
JOHN SPRATT Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian-U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that.
GEN CHARLES HORNER Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian - U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed tha...
CHARLES HORNER The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.
CHUNG MONG-JOON So, we need to delegitimize the nuclear weapon, and by de-legitimizing... meaning trying to develop ...
MOHAMED ELBARADEI My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.
DAVID MARANISS The nuclear weapons states, the United States of America in particular, have ignored their internati...
ICCHO ITOH The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of...
BRYAN MAGEE I think the inherent right of the Government to lie to save itself when facing a nuclear disaster is...
ARTHUR SYLVESTER I think the inherent right of the Government to lie to save itself when facing a nuclear disaster is...
ARTHUR SYLVESTER The cost effectiveness is irrelevant. The objective is deterrence.
BARNETT LOTSTEIN A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present d...
ADAM SEDGWICK The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.
JOSEPH ROTBLAT I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has...
JOSEPH ROTBLAT At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the wh...
JOSEPH ROTBLAT But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiro...
JOSEPH ROTBLAT The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear...
JOSEPH ROTBLAT I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger...
JOSEPH ROTBLAT As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this...
JOSEPH ROTBLAT Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinc...
JOSEPH ROTBLAT The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collap...
JOSEPH ROTBLAT But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the m...
JOSEPH ROTBLAT Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed ...
JOSEPH ROTBLAT The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not k...
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JOSEPH ROTBLAT Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimousl...
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JOSEPH ROTBLAT So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fr...
JOSEPH ROTBLAT My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the...
JOSEPH ROTBLAT When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will b...
JOSEPH ROTBLAT If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their secur...
JOSEPH ROTBLAT This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous o...
JOSEPH ROTBLAT Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, t...
JOSEPH ROTBLAT Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale des...
JOSEPH ROTBLAT for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the ...
JOSEPH ROTBLAT who have been trying for 40 years to save the world, sometimes against the world's wishes.
JOSEPH ROTBLAT We appeal, as human beings to human beings. Remember your humanity and forget the rest. If you can d...
JOSEPH ROTBLAT It was at this time, ... that Groves mentioned that the real purpose in making the bomb was to subdu...
JOSEPH ROTBLAT We have been trying for 40 years to save the world, sometimes against the world's wishes,
JOSEPH ROTBLAT to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and in the long run to elimina...
JOSEPH ROTBLAT At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, ...
KARL JASPERS [Gen. Lord said the nuclear deterrence mission has not changed.] We're with a 500 [missile] day-to-d...
LANCE LORD The philosophy of this place is general cooking for people who cook for the people they love. This i...
FRANK LOCANTE Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such...
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ As we understand it, the U.S. Navy's basic policy is to deploy nuclear-powered ships from now on, .....
HIROYUKI HOSODA Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion...
WILSON GREATBATCH I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about ...
PAMELA ANDERSON DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has dee...
AMBROSE BIERCE We have to live in the present. I was very focused and I knew what I had to do to beat him. At the m...
TOMMY ROBREDO The team is really focused and they are expecting a lot inthe present, ... But asalways, you just ne...
BOB HAMMOND We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.
HERMAN KAHN During my consideration of the new and emerging areas of regenerative medicine, including nuclear tr...
STROM THURMOND Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.
STERLING HAYDEN The present indictment is based entirely on crimes committed since the beginning of 1999 in Kosovo.
LOUISE ARBOUR there are reasons to think that history might be an imperfect guide to the present situation.
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HELEN ZILLE Most of your reactions are echoes from the past. You do not really live in the present.
GAELIC PROVERB Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what t...
ARNOLD H. GLASGOW Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time....
WILLIAM JAMES We both agreed that we have to talk about the present and the future now.
GERHARD SCHROEDER I think what's very disturbing about the present crisis is that there are a number of things going o...
DESMOND LACHMAN The present crisis has been the most predictable, the most senseless, boring and short-lived of all ...
VYACHESLAV NIKONOV This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling S...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures...
GEORGE SANTAYANA At the present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statements, but by capitalists
BENJAMIN DISRAELI That's certainly under review at the present time.
BILL MISKELL The future is made of the same stuff as the present
SIMONE WEIL San Francisco at the present time is like the crater of a volcano, around which are camped tens of t...
JACK LONDON The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of ...
AGNES REPPLIER The team is really focused and they are expecting a lot in
the present, ... But as
always, y...
BOB HAMMOND Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you
PHAEDRUS Consumers still remain optimistic about the future despite having some concerns about the present. T...
STEVEN WOOD We want a deal. They're here. They're engaged. There's no time like the present.
PJ CROWLEY The present will not long endure
PINDAR The events show how desperate the present royal regime is. It is becoming paranoid. The movement is ...
DHRUBA ADHIKARY Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine....
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW are in the present deployment condition, even an unintentional, even a small incident can spark a ch...
ABDUL SATTAR God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is t...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In hours of bliss we oft have met:They could not always last;And though the present I regret,I'm gra...
WILLIAM CONGREVE If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN The present situation in other political parties is very bad. We should not allow the problems confr...
SONIA GANDHI endure the pain of the present to make tomorrow better.
JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI Everybody has their own ideas of Shangri-La ... I tried to teach myself to enjoy the present, enjoy ...
MARK KNOPFLER At the present time there is not enough consensus amongst the players about how we can reach this am...
PETER MANDELSON I believe it would be a waste of time to continue with the present application for a reasons excepti...
DAVID THOMAS You'll see from the 1800s to the present day what sea level has done. And you'll see the rise. There...
JIM DIXON Anyone who lives in the future languishes in the present
ROGER ROSENBLATT The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.
FRANK DOBSON After having known all the top Chinese statesmen from Mao Zedong onwards,
I am quite confident...
HELMUT SCHMIDT They have offered a price even less than the present domestic price, how can we agree to that?
MAHMUDUR RAHMAN In the present, we still have an image of a girl as sweet and innocent. She's not always that, but s...
LOREN LERNER Our message is simply: that we should try and get out of the present downward spiral.
KARAN SINGH I think the average person, unfortunately, sees the result and they attribute that to the present ad...
JEFF KANE Based on the present trends, the natural gas prices this winter is expected to be significantly high...
NICK STAVROPOULOS We need the permanent checkpoints - they send a message of deterrence.
JOSE GARZA Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your fut...
TONY CAMPOLO Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
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JOSEPH JOUBERT There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; ea...
JOSEPH CONRAD Legislation, both statutory and constitutional, is enacted, it is true, from an experience of evils ...
JOSEPH MCKENNA If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of ...
JOSEPH FARRELL The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its fou...
JOSEPH FARRELL People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life... I think that what we're really seeki...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL It seems to have had an order, to have been composed by someone, and those events that were merely a...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
JOSEPH BRODSKY What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
JOSEPH BRODSKY I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
JOSEPH HELLER Follow your bliss.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out in...
JOSEPH CONRAD How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
JOSEPH BRODSKY