Deterrent Quote by Shimon Peres

Everyone knows that Israel has nuclear weapons, but no one is talking about it. The world doesn't want nuclear weapons - not in Israel,…

— Mordechai Vanunu

Israel claims it needs nuclear weapons as a deterrent against any threat to its existence. The Arab world in return feels that this is…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all…

— Bruce Kent

We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Israel has said many times - and I also said this to German television in an interview - that we will not be the…

— Ehud Olmert

Some amount of fear of nuclear weapons is necessary for nuclear deterrence to work.

— Michael Shellenberger

Israel has a couple of hundred nuclear weapons and also chemical and biological weapons. This stockpile is not only a threat in itself but…

— Noam Chomsky

A nuclear Iran is a threat to our national security and its a threat to Israels national security.

— Barack Obama

A nuclear Iran is a threat to America's national security, and it is a threat to Israel's national security. We cannot afford to have…

— Barack Obama

We got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in…

— George W. Bush

It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat…

— Gary Johnson

We do not know which irresponsible Israeli prime minister will take office and decide to use nuclear weapons in the struggle against neighboring Arab…

— Mordechai Vanunu