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Within one year of starting work, I had found that the nucleus of an endoderm cell from an advanced tadpole was able to yield some normal development up to the nuclear transplant tadpole stage.
John Gurdon
Work
Year
Stage
Able
Some
Had
Advanced
Development
Within
Normal
Up
Yield
Cell
Transplant
Found
Nuclear
Starting
I wondered whether the nuclear transfer techniques could be used to introduce purified macro-molecules into an egg, and hence into embryonic cells.
John Gurdon
Introduce
Embryonic
Purified
Could
Wondered
Egg
Cells
Transfer
Whether
Used
Hence
Nuclear
Techniques
I think we ultimately ought to look to put all uranium enrichment and fuel reprocessing, if any is done, under multinational control. Those are the two technologies by which nuclear energy can be translated into nuclear weapons programmes.
John Holdren
Control
Energy
Think
Programmes
Ought
Enrichment
Those
Weapons
Put
Look
Ultimately
Any
Done
Which
Uranium
Fuel
Translated
Multinational
Nuclear
Nuclear Energy
Technologies
Nuclear Weapons
Two
Despite claims by some to the contrary, we have heard numerous times in hearings and briefings by experts that existing technologies do not fully or effectively detect nuclear material.
John Linder
Numerous
Numerous Times
Despite
Claims
Detect
Some
Material
Heard
Existing
Effectively
Times
Contrary
Experts
Fully
Briefing
Nuclear
Technologies
My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.
John McCain
Fear
Organization
Weapon
Threat
Give
Greatest
Terrorist
Real
Doing
Iranians
Them
Acquire
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapon
The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to take.
John O. Brennan
Weapon
Risk
Take
Simply
Terrorist
Afford
Just
Just One
Cannot
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapon
President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
John O. Brennan
Made
President
President Obama
States
Obama
Weapons
Determined
Prevent
Clear
Iran
Acquiring
United
United States
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.
John Polkinghorne
Life
Generation
Before
Stars
Universe
Evolution
Possible
Evolving
Ten
Indispensable
New
Chemical
Were
Years
After
Required
Billion
Even
Elements
Nuclear
For the sake of future generations, we must continue to work together to realise a world without nuclear weapons.
John Roos
Work
Future
Together
World
Future Generations
Must
Weapons
Generations
Without
Sake
Continue
Realise
Work Together
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Chinese growth will either be strong or very strong. They have a voracious demand for energy that will only continue to grow. What they're doing... is looking at all forms of energy. They're going ahead very strongly with coal, nuclear, oil, natural gas.
John S. Watson
Natural
Strong
Will
Be Strong
Looking
Energy
Strongly
Only
Demand
Voracious
Doing
Continue
Very
Going
Oil
Either
Natural Gas
Chinese
Forms
Coal
Grow
Nuclear
Growth
Gas
Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal.
John Sununu
Technology
Proliferate
Willingness
Weapon
Weapons
Hussein
He
Saddam
Saddam Hussein
Because
Chemical
His
Get
Any
Capability
Use
Shown
Disposal
Nuclear
You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.
John Travolta
You
My Friend
Friend
Just
Nuclear
We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained.
Joschka Fischer
Will
Power
Military
Every
Seeing
Contained
Interest
Use
Nuclear
Nuclear Power
But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War.
Joseph Rotblat
War
Cold
Cold War
Sides
Significant
Both
Both Sides
Throughout
Maintaining
Arms
Arms Race
Scientists
Very
Iron
Iron Curtain
Role
Decades
Curtain
Race
Momentum
Nuclear
Nuclear Arms
Four
Played
All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero.
Joseph Rotblat
Will
First
Down
Way
States
Recognize
Would
Weapon
Weapons
Mutual
Be The First
Never
Open
Reduction
Arsenal
Gradual
Form
Declare
Should
Use
Now
Zero
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapon
Nuclear Weapons
Treaty
I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.
Joseph Rotblat
Time
History
Man
Reality
First
Single
Destroy
Weapons
Civilization
Development
Single Act
Terrifying
First Time
Acquired
Notice
Means
Act
Your
Whole
Technical
Nuclear
Bring
Nuclear Weapons
Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.
Joseph Rotblat
Science
Destruction
Other
Indeed
Further
Weapons
Advances
Likely
Endangered
Human
Which
Produce
Means
Whole
Wholesale
Human Species
Species
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.
Joseph Rotblat
Strong
Long
Before
Recognized
Strong Desire
Abhorrence
Weapons
Potential
Instinctive
Arms
Arms Race
Terrifying
Get
Race
Them
Rid
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Widespread
Desire
Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them is dismantling about 2,000 nuclear warheads a year.
Joseph Rotblat
War
Big
Year
Cold
Cold War
About
Main
Since
Powers
Make
Reductions
Arsenal
End
Begun
Them
Dismantling
Each
Nuclear
Nuclear Warheads
Two
So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.
Joseph Rotblat
War
Mind
Action
Thinking
Cold
Cold War
Abandon
Weapons
Threat
Above
Bear
Take
Towards
Long-Term
Look
Period
Powers
Fresh
Fresh Look
Begin
Them
Ask
Appeal
Nuclear
Humankind
Elimination
Nuclear Weapons
Pose
The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared.
Joseph Rotblat
Communism
Before
Collapse
Weapons
Brought
Having
Rationale
Disappeared
Disaster
Arms
Arms Race
However
Chief
Task
Soviet
Any
Soviet Union
Stop
After
Disintegration
Race
Union
Utter
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one.
Joseph Rotblat
War
World
Evidence
Weapons
Direct
Known
Caused
Nearly
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
World War
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
War
Reality
World
Unlike
Destroys
Weapons
Trigger
Civilization
Previous
May
Which
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
World War
This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack.
Joseph Rotblat
Weapons
Deter
Only
Attack
Exist
While
Means
Function
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some 15,000 nuclear warheads, active and in reserve. Fifteen thousand weapons with an average yield of 20 Hiroshima bombs.
Joseph Rotblat
Remember
Will
Active
Has-Been
Thousand
Weapons
Some
Implemented
Hiroshima
Been
Left
Yield
Fifteen
Average
Reserve
Nuclear
Bombs
Start
Nuclear Warheads
Treaty
If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.
Joshua Lederberg
Single
Think
Society
Enormous
Weapon
Civil
Able
Civil Society
Risk
Individuals
Isolated
Inflict
Whole
Base
Nuclear
Lunatic
Nuclear Weapon
Imagine
Harm
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