Active Quote by Joseph Rotblat

The U.S. had about 10,000 nuclear warheads. It is estimated that the U.S. is heading towards having 6,000 nuclear warheads in the year 2012.

— John Burroughs

Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them…

— Joseph Rotblat

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] now I think I mentioned around 27,000 and during the Cold War the total global arsenal was on the order of 70,000.

— John Burroughs

Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea…

— Max von Sydow

You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by…

— Carl Sagan

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

“York posed the question, how many nuclear weapons are needed to deter an adversary rational enough to be deterred? Concurring with Bundy’s judgment—as who…

— Daniel Ellsberg

The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that's all…

— Carl Sagan

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

— John Spratt

The bombs held in current nuclear arsenals are seventy times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. If we don't begin opposing the…

— Johann Hari

There is a clear norm against the spread of nuclear weapons, but there is no consensus or treaty on what, if anything, is to…

— Richard N. Haass