Nuclear weapons Quotes · Page 9

President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

— John O. Brennan

There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they're not implemented fully, because the U.S. won't allow…

— Noam Chomsky

The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don't want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon.

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Rick Wilson

Lawyers are like nuclear weapons. By all rights they shouldn't exist, but if some people have them, then you'd better have one,…

— John Gierach

[Should] Iraq acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year.

— George W. Bush

The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.

— Robert McNamara

The Framework Agreement is one of the best things the [Clinton] Administration has done because it stopped a nuclear weapons program in…

— Madeleine Albright

I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from…

— Haley Barbour

We've already seen proliferation. We started it with Britain, then France. Then we benignly let the Israelis do it. The Pakistanis and…

— William Odom

My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me.…

— Daniel Ellsberg

For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states…

— Susan Rice

Nuclear weapons are inherently threatening to all of civilization. If that had been a nuclear weapon at the World Trade Center, even…

— Robert Scheer

The five original nuclear weapon states I mentioned - U.S., Britain, France, China, and Russia - under the NPT have committed to…

— John Burroughs

The real threat to U.S. military power is nuclear proliferation, because if every little country has nuclear weapons it becomes very tricky…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately…

— Anonymous

The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I'm an adult and I know what power means in the modern world. In the modern world, power is mainly defined by…

— Vladimir Putin

“We can no longer ignore the fact that billions of our neighbors believe in the metaphysics of martyrdom, or in the literal…

— Sam Harris

We support any deal that denies Iran nuclear weapons, that has a continuous and robust inspection mechanism and that has snap-back provisions…

— Adel al-Jubeir

The long-standing, non-partisan and publicly-declared foreign policy commitment of the United States is clear. We will do whatever is required to prevent…

— Elijah Cummings

Keep in mind our Constitution predates the Industrial Revolution. Our founders did not know about electricity, the train, telephones, radio, television, automobiles,…

— Ross Perot

There are lots of things that Jeremy Corbyn feels strongly about. He definitely doesn't like wars, nuclear weapons, or free market capitalism.…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

“Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better in the sphere of our being…

— Václav Havel

The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern.

— Mitchell Reiss

Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.

— Valerie Plame

Obviously, we don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons and I don't know if they're developing them, but if they're not developing…

— Martin Van Creveld

Iran is waging a war of attrition against Israel and at the same time advancing its plans to obtain military nuclear weapons.

— Yoav Gallant

Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.

— Marianne Williamson

The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear…

— Leon Panetta

It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.

— Lal Bahadur Shastri

Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.

— Herman Kahn

It has always been clear that any use of nuclear weapons would have catastrophic humanitarian consequences.

— Peter Maurer

Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

[Hillary Clinton] worked a tough negotiation with nations around the world to eliminate the Iranian nuclear weapons program without firing a shot.

— Tim Kaine

Concrete steps are needed to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in military plans, doctrines, and policies.

— Peter Maurer

The only thing that will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons is regime change in Tehran.

— John Bolton

Designing new low-yield nuclear weapons for limited strikes dangerously lowers the threshold for their use.

— Dianne Feinstein

This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment.

— Newt Gingrich

It is deterrence that has prevented the use of nuclear weapons by all states that possess them since 1945.

— Tom Malinowski