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  • We could still have continued the arms race, but the arms race was pointless, and it was another reason we decided to start perestroika. It was senseless to continue to accumulate weapons. We had enough weapons to destroy life on Earth 1,000 times, and therefore it was very clear to us that the arms race could spiral out of control. A conflict could have started, as both the Americans and the Soviets realized, not out of a wrong political decision but because of a failure in the command-and-control systems.

    Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.
  • I believe that the politics of intervention and the Kosovo war prompted a fresh resumption of the arms race worldwide.

    War   Believe   Race  
    Source: ctheory.net
  • Everyone's heard about the military-industrial complex, but they know very little about the medical-industrial complex...(in) a medical arms race.

    Military   Dark   Race  
  • Russia doesn't want any arms race. Russia would not engage in the arms race. We have enough technological means to provide not very expensive answer to the efforts to build missile defense.

    Mean   Russia   Race  
    Source: theinternationalreporter.org
  • Without a deal [with Iran], the international sanctions regime will unravel with little ability to reimpose them. With this deal, we have the possibility of peacefully resolving a major threat to regional and international security. Without a deal, we risk even more war in the Middle East and other countries in the region would feel compelled to pursue their own nuclear programs, threatening a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region in the world.

    Country   War   Race  
    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that wiped the Russians out.

    War   Winning   Race  
  • No treaty, however much it may be to the advantage of all, however tightly it may be worded, can provide absolute security against the risks of deception and evasion. But it can, if it is sufficiently effective in its enforcement and if it is sufficiently in the interests of its signers, offer far more security and far fewer risks than an unabated, uncontrolled, unpredictable arms race.

    Race   Risk   Deception  
    American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963
  • I think it's yet to be seen how that is going to shape up. But I can tell we all know that President-elect [Donald] Trump doesn't like the Iran deal, thinks it's a terrible document, thinks it will create a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, which it already is beginning to do.

    Thinking   Race   Iran  
    Source: abcnews.go.com
  • 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.

    Race   Tasks   Nuclear  
    Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.130, I.B.Tauris
  • You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.

    Winning   Race   People  
    "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.
  • if we pursue the arms race no other problem will be solved.

    War   Race   Arms  
  • The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.

    I.F. Stone (1972). “Polemics and prophecies, 1967-1970”, Vintage Books USA
  • You could think of an ecosystem as a bunch of antagonistic arms races, almost: Everything that an animal depends upon for food is the body part of some other animal or plant who would just as soon keep that body part for itself.

    Animal   Thinking   Race  
  • The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

    Believe   Men   Two  
    "The White House Years". Book by Henry Kissinger, 1979.
  • Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.

  • One can imagine a kind of hormonal arms race or genetic arms race, whether it's to do with height or IQ, conceivably, in the future. So it's limitless, and that's another of the features that sets it apart from medical intervention.

    Race   Arms   Height  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.133, Beacon Press
  • ...convince all nuclear powers, including those which have been more reluctant up to now, of the necessity to respect the "vital interests" of all peoples and to become fully aware of the profound truth of the following conclusion which the United Nations approved by unanimity four years ago: "Mankind is confronted with a choice: we must halt the arms race and proceed to disarmament or face annihilation".

  • For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

    Doubt   Arms   Certain  
    Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961
  • Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

    Peace   Military   War  
    Epitoma Rei Militaris bk. 3, prologue See Aristotle 4
  • I agree that we need a working relationship with Russia to deescalate a nuclear arms race, to resolve the crisis in Syria.

    Russia   Race   Arms  
    Source: abcnews.go.com
  • That is potentially putting us all in the target hairs now is the reactivation of a new nuclear arms race. This arms race and this cold war is potentially hotter than it's been at any time in my lifetime.

    War   Hair   Race  
    Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com
  • A nuclear Iran is a threat to America's national security, and it is a threat to Israel's national security. We cannot afford to have a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region of the world.

    Source: genius.com
  • Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.

    Peace   Struggle   Ubuntu  
  • The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

    Two   Race   Enemy  
  • World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

    War   Race   World  
    Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
  • If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

    In 'Life' 16 January 1956
  • The fact that many private expenditures are mutually offsetting actually happens to constitute a remarkably good bit of fiscal news. Mutually offsetting spending patterns are wasteful in the same way that military arms races are. In such situations, if each party spends less, nothing is sacrificed, yet resources are freed up that can be put to much better uses.

    Military   Party   Race  
    Source: bobmorris.biz
  • Donald Trump is the one who said if somebody really wants an arms race, we'll drown him.

    Race   Want   Arms  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Deterrence failed completely as a guide in setting rational limits on the size and composition of military forces, spurring an insatiable arms race with a reckless proliferation of the most destructive power ever unleashed, tailored for delivery by a vast array of vehicles to a stupefying array of targets.

    Military   Race   Target  
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