If World War III is fought with nuclear weapons, World War…

We do not know which irresponsible Israeli prime minister will take office and decide to use nuclear weapons in the struggle against neighboring Arab…

— Mordechai Vanunu

I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons.

— Donald Rumsfeld

A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability…

— Hillary Clinton

There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one.

— Joseph Rotblat

Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either…

— Robert Fisk

Certainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches of the…

— John Burroughs

Maybe that will happen with other countries as well. And so, that's why one of the things that groups like mine that work for…

— John Burroughs

Israel has a couple of hundred nuclear weapons and also chemical and biological weapons. This stockpile is not only a threat in itself but…

— Noam Chomsky

“As the tail on our back disappeared as we no longer had any use for it, nuclear weapons will also disappear once we realize,…

— Abhijit Naskar

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.

— Arundhati Roy

In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.

— John Charles Polanyi

I come to this debate, Mr. Speaker, as one at the end of 10 years in office on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,…

— Nancy Pelosi

One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep…

— Dora Russell

We know he's been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.

— Dick Cheney

All nations that have nuclear weapons think that they are responsible and it is the other guys who are irresponsible.

— Joseph Cirincione