Ambition Quote by Vladimir Putin

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Our republic is a responsible nuclear state that, as we made clear before, will not use nuclear weapons first unless aggressive hostile forces use…

— Kim Jong-un

This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack.

— Joseph Rotblat

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

— Robert McNamara

I believe we should use all means necessary to prevent the acquisition or fabrication of nuclear weapons by countries or groups hostile to the…

— Sandy Adams

The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country…

— Daisaku Ikeda

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

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

— Dianne Feinstein

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

— George Wald

People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their…

— Ban Ki-moon

The best way for any state to deter a rival from using its nuclear arsenal for political gain is to have its own nuclear…

— John Mearsheimer