Acquisition Quote by 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

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

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

— Robert McNamara

We're fundamentally opposed to the expansion of nuclear-weapons arsenals. This is why we have proposed the formation of an unbiased organization and the disarmament…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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

If the militarily most powerful and least threatened states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that…

— Joseph Rotblat

There tends to be this comfortable assumption that nuclear weapons won't be used, but I don't think that's warranted, and I think we should…

— John Burroughs

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

The fact is, I see no compelling reason why we should not unilaterally get rid of our nuclear weapons. To maintain them is costly…

— Paul Nitze

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

No single nation should pick and choose which nations holds nuclear weapons. And that's why I strongly reaffirmed America's commitment to seek a world…

— Barack Obama

As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as "necessary" in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never be gotten rid of.

— Bernard Lown