Concepts Quote by David Steel

And, by the way, how come all the people who were so in favor of unilateral nuclear disarmament are so opposed to unilateral protection…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Liberal democracy was saved only by nuclear weapons.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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

— Tom Malinowski

“In order to reach parity in conventional armament, Western countries would probably have had to scrap liberal democracy and the free market, and become…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Reducing the nuclear danger will require a universal, consistent opposition to all forms of weapons development

— David Cortright

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

— Vipin Narang

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

— Anonymous

Nuclear weapons are the ideal middle-class weapons for Americans. They provide massive amounts of deterrence on the cheap.

— John Mearsheimer

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

I do not understand the unilateralists. If they hated nuclear weapons as much as I do they would want them down in the world…

— Margaret Thatcher