We see elected officials pounding their chests, saying…

Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.

— Stanley Kubrick

We do not have the right to forget that reactionary imperialism exists and its forces actively operate in the world, that they encourage the…

— Andrei Grechko

Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall never come…

— Jimmy Carter

But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout…

— Joseph Rotblat

The Iranian regime supports violent extremists and challenges us across the region. It pursues a nuclear capability that could spark a dangerous arms race…

— Barack Obama

Our tolerance of the intolerable found a low threshold as early as the late 1950s with the grotesque excesses of McCarthyism, which destroyed so…

— Pankaj Mishra

A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement…

— Leon Trotsky

We will stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power. We will stop that nuclear arms race that could happen in the Middle East. We…

— Bobby Jindal

India, Pakistan, China, Singapore and South Korea are heavily investing in nuclear arms. Since 21st century is the century of Asia, Asian countries should…

— Óscar Arias

Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions…

— Desmond Tutu

I agree that we need a working relationship with Russia to deescalate a nuclear arms race, to resolve the crisis in Syria.

— Katrina vanden Heuvel

“the Russian assault rifle would see its first combat use—both by conventional forces and by insurgents. The United States military, all the while, would…

— C.J. Chivers

...convince all nuclear powers, including those which have been more reluctant up to now, of the necessity to respect the "vital interests" of all…

— Alfonso Garcia Robles

Of course, one of the most disturbing features is the fact that while we have had roughly a ten year pause in the arms…

— Paul Virilio

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

— Herman Kahn