American Quote by Conrad Black

Britain's independent possession of nuclear weapons has turned into a political touchstone for commitment to national defense, but this is an illusion.

— Crispin Blunt

American strategic [nuclear] forces do not exist solely for the purpose of deterring a Soviet nuclear threat or attack against the U.S. itself. Instead,…

— Colin S. Gray

A Britain which denounced the insanity of the nuclear strategy would be in a position to direct its influence at the United Nations and…

— Michael Foot

We assess that there is no significant threat to the UK from nuclear weapons at present, but developments continue to be monitored closely. We…

— Geoff Hoon

It's very difficult to convince other countries that they shouldn't pursue nuclear weapons programs if we ourselves are actively developing a component of a…

— Steven Weinberg

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

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

— Robert McNamara

The Soviet Union's propaganda clearly wishes to use public opinion in this country to get the West to reduce its own arms while doing…

— James Callaghan

If the United States wants to prevent other countries from acquiring the bomb, it must be prepared to reduce and eventually end its own…

— David Cortright

As we learned during the Cold War, the presence of massive nuclear arsenals does not stop great powers from worrying about conventional force balances…

— John Mearsheimer

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

— Tom Malinowski