William Peden Quotations

The real solution to this crisis is a true and meaningful Nuclear Free Zone in the Middle East, not one which is paid lip service to. It is a vital first step towards removing all nuclear proliferation risks in the region, as well as providing the essential security guarantees from nuclear weapons states outside the region. If we don't seriously contemplate this option then the world will, as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan pointed out a few days ago, lurch from nuclear crisis to nuclear crisis.

Both sides have boxed themselves into a corner. I think they were going through the motions. This dialogue may well be the final act of diplomacy before the curtain lowers for a referral vote.

It is way too early to make such bold assertions when so many questions remain unanswered and many thousands more may die in decades to come.

It shows that no matter how much money the industry tries to throw at this, the majority of people still believe that nuclear is dirty, decrepit and dangerous.