The sole purpose of nuclear weapons must be to deter their…

The purpose of nuclear weapons is to deter. The mission of deterrence to make all parties in possession of nuclear weapons never, ever use…

— Rick Wilson

“The driver of deterrence success is not nuclear weapons, it is nuclear posture. Nuclear weapons may deter, but they deter unequally.”

— Vipin Narang

It is my fervent goal and hope... that we will someday no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure…

— Ronald Reagan

Obsolete weapons do not deter.

— Margaret Thatcher

We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would…

— Dianne Feinstein

Nuclear weapons present us with a paradox: We spend billions of dollars building and maintaining them in the hope that we never have to…

— Dianne Feinstein

“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

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

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

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

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

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

— Joseph Rotblat

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

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

— Donald Rumsfeld

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