Force Quote by Daisaku Ikeda

As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt…

— C. Robert Kehler

Nuclear weapons are so destructive and ballistic missiles are so swift, that any substantially increased possibility of their use or any sudden change in…

— John F. Kennedy

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

Nuclear weapons will not be gotten rid of until the United States confronts the magnitude of the horror, the tragedy, and the long-term suffering…

— Bernard Lown

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

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

There are some people that will be deterred by the fact that we have nuclear weapons... But those people are the folks we can…

— Charles Horner

Are we prepared to tolerate a world in which countries which care about morality lay down their nuclear weapons, leaving others to threaten the…

— Des Browne

The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.

— Anonymous

We must not only control the weapons that can kill us, we must bridge the great disparities of wealth and opportunity among the peoples…

— Muhammad Ali

Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons. Those who…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Michael Shellenberger