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"...as
long as we have nuclear weapons on this earth, one could claim that no real life
is actually thriving on the earth. We do not have life actualizing its fullest
potential as long as there are nuclear weapons."
-- Mayor
Tadatoshi Akiba We
cannot and must not allow ourselves to have the message of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
fade completely from our minds, and we cannot allow our vision or ideals to fade,
either. For if we do, we have but one course left for us. And that flash of light
will not only rob us of our vision, but it will rob us of our lives, our progeny,
and our very existence.
-- Mayor
Tadatoshi Akiba | Our
aim is to have a universal nuclear weapons convention signed by the year 2010
and ultimately abolish all nuclear weapons by the year 2020.
-- Mayor
Tadatoshi Akiba Environmental
scientists also show us clearly that from the environmental and ecological points
of view that nuclear war is not preventable. The only way to get rid of this danger
is to abolish all nuclear weapons
-- Mayor
Tadatoshi Akiba What
the Hiroshima survivors are telling us is that no one else should ever go through
the experience they suffered. An atomic bombing creates a living hell on Earth
where the living envy the dead.”
-- Mayor
Tadatoshi Akiba In
some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading
from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced an atomic bombing,
the vast majority around the world can only vaguely imagine such horror, and these
days, John Hersey’s Hiroshima and Jonathan Schell’s The Fate of the Earth are
all but forgotten. As predicted by the saying, ‘Those who cannot remember the
past are condemned to repeat it,’ the probability that nuclear weapons will be
used and the danger of nuclear war are increasing.”
-- Mayor
Tadatoshi Akiba “Passing
on to younger generations the memories and the will of those who suffered the
bombing is the most important step for humankind to survive in the 21st century,” This
Aug. 6 ... is a time of inheritance, of awakening, and of commitment, in which
we inherit the commitment of the bomb victims to the abolition of nuclear weapons
and realization of genuine world peace,”
-- Mayor
Tadatoshi Akiba
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We
must not only control the weapons that can kill us, we must bridge the great disparities
of wealth and opportunity among the peoples of the world, the vast majority of
whom live in poverty without hope, opportunity or choices in life. These conditions
are a breeding ground for division that can cause a desperate people to resort
to nuclear weapons as a last resort. Our only hope lies in the power of our love,
generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world
a better place for all...
-- Muhammad
Ali |  |
If
the entire history of mankind were condensed into a single year, our knowledge
of how to destroy life on earth with weapons of mass destruction has been acquired
in the last thirty seconds. Never again will we lack the knowledge to eliminate
the world in a single act of madness. Therefore, we are faced with a dilemma unique
in our history. We must not only control the weapons that can kill us, we must
bridge the great disparities of wealth and opportunity among the peoples of the
world, the vast majority of whom live in poverty without hope, opportunity or
choices in life. These conditions are a breeding ground for division that can
cause a desperate people to resort to nuclear weapons as a last resort. Our only
hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and
our commitment to making the world a better place for all of Allah's children.
-- Muhammad Ali
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“Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest
levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and
from further proliferation.”
-- Kofi
Annan |
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"The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to
life on Earth. Nuclear arms cannot bolster the security of any nation because
they represent a threat to the security of the human race. These incredibly destructive
weapons are an affront to our common humanity, and the tens of billions of dollars
that are dedicated to their development and maintenance should be used instead
to alleviate human need and suffering."
-- Oscar
Arias Sanchez |  |
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"Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture
them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the
earth itself."
-- Philip
Berrigan |
"If we fight a
war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were
fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be
compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant
of Persia."
-- Hans
Bethe *
"I call on all scientists in all countries to cease and desist from work
creating, developing, improving and manufacturing further nuclear weapons - and,
for that matter, other weapons of potential mass destruction such as chemical
and biological weapons."
-- Hans
Bethe | 
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Today
we are rightly in an era of disarmament and dismantlement of nuclear weapons.
But in some countries nuclear weapons development still continues. Whether and
when the various Nations of the World can agree to stop this is uncertain. But
individual scientists can still influence this process by withholding their skills.
-- Hans Bethe
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that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather
quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't
know what he meant then, but I know now.
-- David
R. Brower *
"Is the minor convenience
of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption
every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations
to this lethal waste?"
-- David
R. Brower |
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"We're
worrying for the country and we're worrying for our kids. We say NO radioactive
waste dump in our ngura in our country. Don't waste our country. Don't waste our
future."
-- Eileen
Kampakuta Brown & The Kungka Tju |  |
We
know the poison from the radioactive dump will go down under the ground and leak
into the water. We drink from this water. The animals drink from this water. We're
worried that the animals will become poisoned, and we'll become poisoned in our
turn.
-- Eileen
Kampakuta Brown & The Kungka Tju I've
also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was
a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they
called it Peace Sunday.
-- Jackson Browne
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"It
is my profound conviction that nuclear weapons did not, and will not, of themselves
prevent major war. To the contrary, I am persuaded that the presence of these
hideous devices unnecessarily prolonged and intensified the Cold War. In today's
security environment, threats of their employment have been fully exposed as neither
credible nor of any military utility."
-- General
Lee Butler, head of US Strategic Nuclear Forces 1991-1994. |  |
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is a measure of arrogance to assert that a nuclear weapons-free world is impossible
when 95% of the nations of the world are already nuclear-free. I think that the
vast majority of people on the face of this earth will endorse the proposition
that nuclear weapons have no place among us. There is no security in nuclear weapons.
It is a fool’s game.”
-- General
Lee Butler, head of US Strategic Nuclear Forces 1991-1994 “I
am the only person who ever looked at all twelve thousand five hundred of our
targets. And when I got through I was horrified. Deterrence was a formula for
disaster. We escaped disaster by the grace of God. If you ask one person who has
lived in this arena his whole career, I have come to one conclusion. This has
to end. This must stop. This must be our highest priority.”
-- General
Lee Butler, head of US Strategic Nuclear Forces 1991-1994 Nuclear
weapons play on our deepest fears and pander to our darkest instincts. They corrode
our sense of humanity, numb our capacity for moral outrage, and make thinkable
the unimaginable. They prey on democracies and totalitarian societies alike, shrinking
the norms of civilized behavior and dimming the prospects for escaping the savagery
so powerfully imprinted on our genetic code.
-- General
Lee Butler, head of US Strategic Nuclear Forces 1991-1994 People
who say to me that the elimination of nuclear weapons is utopian have somehow
managed to completely ignore the fact that the end of the Cold War was a far more
utopian prospect only ten years ago than eliminating nuclear weapons is now.
-- General
Lee Butler, head of US Strategic Nuclear Forces 1991-1994 A
world free of the threat of nuclear weapons is necessarily a world devoid of nuclear
weapons…. Nuclear weapons pose an intolerable threat to humanity and our habitat….
-- General Lee
Butler There
are still thousands of warheads loaded on operational systems and standing on
high states of alert on virtually hair-trigger posture. And you have to ask yourself:
Why is that? Who is the enemy? What is the threat?
-- General
Lee Butler
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"As
a doctor, as well as a mother and a world citizen, I wish to practice the ultimate
form of preventive medicine by ridding the earth of these technologies that propagate
disease, suffering, and death."
-- Helen
Caldicott |
“American
leaders have declared that nuclear weapons will remain the cornerstone of US national
security indefinitely. In truth, as the world’s only remaining superpower, nuclear
weapons are the sole military source of our national insecurity. We, and the whole
world, would be much safer if nuclear weapons were abolished.”
-- Rear Admiral
Eugene J Carroll, US Navy
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this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the
pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and
spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
~ Jimmy
Carter |
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"The
risk of an all-out nuclear holocaust destroying all life on the planet has diminished,
but the danger of actual nuclear weapons use has increased."
-- David
Cortright
If the United
States wants to prevent other countries from acquiring the bomb, it must be prepared
to reduce and eventually end its own reliance on nuclear weapons.
-- David Cortright |  |
Reducing
the nuclear danger will require a universal, consistent opposition to all forms
of weapons development
-- David
Cortright
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"A
common denominator in every single nuclear accident -- a nuclear plant or on a
nuclear submarine -- is that before the specialists even know what has happened,
they rush to the media saying, 'There's no danger to the public.' They do this
before they themselves know what has happened because they are terrified that
the public might react violently, either by panic or by revolt."
~ Jacques
Cousteau |
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"There’s
a very simple reason for focusing on the nuclear issue. Many, many issues are
of supreme importance in one way or another, but if we blow ourselves up with
nuclear weapons, no other issue is really going to matter. Quite possibly there
would be no other human beings left to be concerned about anything else."
-- Alan Cranston
Unprecedented
warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense
strategy indicate that we are running out of time. If we fail to act soon, the
scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.
-- Alan Cranston
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The
probability of a fatal nuclear detonation is greater now than at any time during
the Cold War. As the Russian military deteriorates, and as rogue governments and
terrorists seek to acquire nuclear capabilities, the threat continues to grow.
-- Alan Cranston
As they were
during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of
a nuclear attack. Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown
enemy, to achieve unclear motives.
-- Alan
Cranston The
explosion of a terrorist’s single nuclear device in a major metropolitan center
would trigger an unparalleled humanitarian and environmental disaster. An accidental
military launch of multiple warheads could result in a worldwide nuclear holocaust.
Medical researchers and military analysts forebode grim consequences.
-- Alan
Cranston
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"The
risks of transporting deadly nuclear waste, the environmental justice impacts
and the long-term health effects of both these projects are untenable...We cannot
afford to be silent on these important issues."
~ James Cromwell
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I
know that nuclear is better than fossil fuels when it comes to carbon dioxide,
but nuclear energy is by no means clean. We don't know what to do with the waste
we already have and it seems like a bad idea to me to make more when we have so
many cleaner options such as wind and solar.
-- Sheryl Crow
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