Adventure Quote by Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Nuclear weapons and other weapons are the means to protect our sovereignty and legitimate interests, not the means to behave aggressively or to fulfil…

— Vladimir Putin

Nuclear weapons are considered the ultimate deterrent for good reason: Adversaries are unlikely to threaten the existence of a nuclear-armed state, especially one with…

— John Mearsheimer

The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use it.

— Peter T. King

The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country…

— Daisaku Ikeda

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.

— Arundhati Roy

Some amount of fear of nuclear weapons is necessary for nuclear deterrence to work.

— Michael Shellenberger

We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.

— John Spratt

This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack.

— Joseph Rotblat

The only sure way to eliminate the threat posed by nuclear weapons is to eliminate the weapons themselves.

— Antonio Guterres

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

People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their…

— Ban Ki-moon

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

— Vipin Narang