John F. Kennedy:] Above all, while defending our own vital…

Russia and the USA are two largest nuclear powers in the world; it's a really important relationship. How do we start making this work?…

— Rex W. Tillerson

Thank God, I think no one is thinking of unleashing a large-scale conflict with Russia. I want to remind you that Russia is one…

— Vladimir Putin

Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen…

— Haile Selassie

Russia and the United States are the biggest nuclear powers, this leaves us with an extra special responsibility. By the way, we manage to…

— Vladimir Putin

Teller contended, not implausibly, that hydrogen bombs keep the peace, or at least prevent thermonuclear war, because the consequences of warfare between nuclear powers…

— Carl Sagan

The deadly arms race, and the huge resources it absorbs, have too long overshadowed all else we must do. We must prevent that arms…

— John F. Kennedy

The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.

— Lawrence Eagleburger

At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India…

— Ellen Tauscher

...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

I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage,…

— Nyla Ali Khan

In the area of international security, taking into account that the United States and Russia are the largest nuclear powers: We are ready to…

— Vladimir Putin

But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.

— Joseph Rotblat

Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them…

— Joseph Rotblat

Nuclear proliferation has never entirely been brought under control, and the arsenals of nuclear powers contain bombs far more powerful than those dropped on…

— Margaret MacMillan

The whole nuclear-arms-control and non-proliferation policy of the nuclear powers is a fraud: The Americans could not prevent the Soviets from replicating their weaponry,…

— Conrad Black