120 Quotes About Nuclear

  • Author Albert Wattenberg
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    After the instrumentation was reset, Fermi told Weil to remove the rod another six inches. The pile was still subcritical. The intensity was increasing slowly - when suddenly there was a very loud crash! The safety rod, ZIP, had been automatically released. Its relay had been activated by an ionization chamber because the intensity had exceeded the arbitrary level at which it had been set. It was 11:30 a.m., and Fermi said, "I'm hungry. Let's go to lunch.

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  • Author Mohamed ElBaradei
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    We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security - and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use

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  • Author Bill Adams
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    This is the nuclear option. Actually, the nuclear option would be shutting down the plant. This is the neutron bomb.

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  • Author Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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    Those who insist on transferring the Iranian nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council have received an additional argument for doing so.

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  • Author Charles Bass
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    U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.

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  • Author Conrad Black
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    The whole nuclear-arms-control and non-proliferation policy of the nuclear powers is a fraud: The Americans could not prevent the Soviets from replicating their weaponry, and then could not object when the British did the same.

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