We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.

Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.

— Daniel H. Wilson

The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.

— Lord Mountbatten

To respond to North Korea by having our own nuclear weapons will not maintain peace on the Korean Peninsula and could lead to a…

— Moon Jae-in

The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.

— Anthony Mason

The nuclear arms race is like two people sitting in a pool of gasoline spending all their time making matches.

— John Denver

If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon you…

— Liam Fox

We don't need another nuclear arms race to proceed a pace and then to encourage other countries to become very, to develop these kinds…

— Mazie Hirono

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

— Carl Sagan

Without a deal [with Iran], the international sanctions regime will unravel with little ability to reimpose them. With this deal, we have the possibility…

— Barack Obama

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

— Katrina vanden Heuvel

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

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

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