Contributing Quote by John Burroughs

We're not just discussing limits on a further increase of nuclear weapons; we seek, instead, to reduce their number. We seek the total elimination…

— Ronald Reagan

Nuclear weapons remain a costly distraction from the real security threats we face, like climate change.

— Caroline Lucas

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

When people know we are ready to use nuclear weapons, they're going to back off if we do something aggressive. So basically, nuclear weapons…

— Noam Chomsky

Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has…

— Charles Krauthammer

Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the…

— Philip Berrigan

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

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

As long as nuclear weapons exist, there is a risk that they will be used. And the consequences of their use would be catastrophic.…

— Margot Wallstrom

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 sole purpose of nuclear weapons must be to deter their use by others.

— Dianne Feinstein

We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries…

— Mohamed ElBaradei