Quotes About Nuclear Terrorism

#1. The greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists and nuclear proliferation to an increasing number of states.

Barack Obama

#2. For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.

Greg Bear

#3. Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties and create immense suffering and unwanted change in the world forever. This prospect should compel all of us to act to prevent such a catastrophe.

Ban Ki-moon

#4. Of this, to repeat, means that nuclear terrorism is impossible, only that it is not, as so many people insist, imminent, inevitable, or highly probable.

Steven Pinker

#5. Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.

Lee H. Hamilton

#6. For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda.

Barack Obama

#7. I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.

Nelson DeMille

#8. The era of nuclear terrorism has arrived.

Liam Fox

#9. Each of the pathways to nuclear terrorism, when examined carefully, turns out to have gantlets of improbabilities.

Steven Pinker

#10. Annamaria insists that mere hours earlier, I saved entire cities, sparing many hundreds of thousands from nuclear terrorism. Even if that is most likely true, I feel as though, in the process, I have forfeited a piece of my soul.

Dean Koontz

#11. The threat of nuclear terrorism is growing faster than our ability to prevent an attack on our homeland.

Joe Lieberman

#12. Nuclear terrorism is possible - it may be probable - but is survivable.

Irwin Redlener

#13. I don't give a damn if he is [glad to hear it] or not. This is something between Jesus and me.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#14. One of our gravest concerns is the entry of a nuclear device or materials into the U.S.

Charles E. Allen

#15. Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.

Ban Ki-moon

#16. Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.

George W. Bush

#17. The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern.

Mitchell Reiss

#18. Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation and those nations that proliferate with chemical, biological and nuclear type devices, because that can cause the most catastrophic results.

Hugh Shelton

#19. 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

#20. 9/11 woke us up, a nuclear 9/11 could shut us down.

Howard Bloom

#21. Iran is the greatest threat to stability in the Middle East. Iran remains the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, continues its efforts to develop nuclear weapons and has directly threatened the existence of Israel and the United States.

James Inhofe

#22. I've always liked funk and rock and everything.

John Otto

#23. My petite little platinum blonde beauty of a wife suddenly turned into a public-relations dynamo. "The business is Buzz!" she proclaimed, and indeed so it became.

Buzz Aldrin

#24. I know the Pope is opposed to the use of condoms. All I can say is, I am a spiritual man and I've been happily married for 21 years. I don't even know what a condom is anymore.

Tom Hanks

#25. The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.

Andrew Davies

#26. Iran - the world's leading sponsor of terrorism - is close to having nuclear weapons.

Newt Gingrich

#27. You know, people have actually changed the way they think about nuclear weapons now, post-Cold War, post-9/11. The threat of nuclear weapons is not so much Russia attacking the United States, China. It's not a state-to-state - it's obviously terrorism; it's proliferation.

Lawrence Bender

#28. We've always had to worry about the electrical grid and nuclear facilities, and they remain a concern; but cyber-terrorism, you know, which is a word that you hear more and more, I think is a reality.

Richard Fadden

#29. Chernobyl, an accident or the most successful anti-Marxist attack in recorded history?

Anders Breivik

#30. I know it's not a lot of comfort right now, but the bad reminds you just how good everything else is. You've got to have both.

Kit Rocha

#31. Iran is isolated on its nuclear program and support for terrorism.

Thomas E. Donilon

#32. Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related.

Marianne Williamson

#33. The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

Noam Chomsky