Britain Quote by Neil Kinnock

No doubt relinquishing our nuclear arsenal would irritate Washington but what would the U.S. rather have, the U.K. able to assist in military operations…

— Clive Lewis

Britain's independent possession of nuclear weapons has turned into a political touchstone for commitment to national defense, but this is an illusion.

— Crispin Blunt

A Britain which denounced the insanity of the nuclear strategy would be in a position to direct its influence at the United Nations and…

— Michael Foot

We assess that there is no significant threat to the UK from nuclear weapons at present, but developments continue to be monitored closely. We…

— Geoff Hoon

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

If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We must abolish nuclear weapons, or they will abolish us.

— John F. Kennedy

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 whole nuclear-arms-control and non-proliferation policy of the nuclear powers is a fraud: The Americans could not prevent the Soviets from replicating their weaponry,…

— Conrad Black

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

They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.

— Robert McNamara

Nuclear weapons can be dismantled, but they cannot be uninvented.

— Martin Rees