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It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives. -- Robert McNamara
Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up. -- Danny DeVito
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. -- Frank Zappa
Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation -- William Sloane Coffin
Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.' -- John Fugelsang
I don't think that any deal was needed: Iran was not a threat. Even if Iran were a threat, there was a very easy way to handle it - by establishing a Middle East Nuclear Weapons Free Zone, which is something that nearly everyone in the world wants. -- Noam Chomsky
We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons. -- Dick Cheney
The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth. -- Oscar Arias
Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary. -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. -- Margaret Thatcher
The United States will do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. -- Barack Obama
Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do. -- Stephen Hawking
So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force. -- Daisaku Ikeda
Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished. -- Eisaku Sato
There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one. -- Joseph Rotblat
You can guarantee that mining uranium will lead to nuclear waste. You can't guarantee that uranium mining will not lead to nuclear weapons. -- Anthony Albanese
Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist. -- Daisaku Ikeda
Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation. -- Kofi Annan
Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme. -- Vladimir Putin
Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news is that they have to drop it with a camel. -- David Letterman
I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Nuclear weapons are so destructive and ballistic missiles are so swift, that any substantially increased possibility of their use or any sudden change in their deployment may well be regarded as a definite threat to peace. -- John F. Kennedy
We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act. -- Joseph Rotblat
Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we have not received any such information from our partners as yet. -- Vladimir Putin
My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war. -- Daniel Ellsberg
I call on all scientists in all countries to cease and desist from work creating, developing, improving and manufacturing further nuclear weapons - and, for that matter, other weapons of potential mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons. -- Hans Bethe
Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place. -- Colin Powell
Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar spent on making the world a comparatively dirtier and a more dangerous place, because nuclear power and nuclear weapons go hand in hand. -- Mark Z. Jacobson
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. -- Ronald Reagan
A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. The only value in our two nations possessing nuclear weapons is to make sure they will never be used. But then would it not be better to do away with them entirely? -- Ronald Reagan
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapons will be banned or eliminated from the region by every country in the region. -- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
We do not wish to have nuclear weapons on New Zealand soil or in our harbors. We do not ask, we do not expect, the United States to come to New Zealand's assistance with nuclear weapons or to present American nuclear capability as a deterrent to an attacker. -- David Lange
A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between East and West than exists at present, a world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. -- Margaret Thatcher
I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them. -- Curtis LeMay
Iran's goal is not to become another North Korea - a nuclear weapons possessor but a pariah in the international community - but rather Brazil or Japan, a technological powerhouse with the capacity to develop nuclear weapons if the political winds were to shift, while remaining a nonnuclear weapons state. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella. -- Haley Barbour
Today we are rightly in an era of disarmament and dismantlement of nuclear weapons. But in some countries nuclear weapons development still continues. Whether and when the various Nations of the World can agree to stop this is uncertain. But individual scientists can still influence this process by withholding their skills. -- Hans Bethe
If Iran and North Korea, by some horrible, devilish, nightmarish scenario, got together and went to war at the same time, one against Saudi Arabia and one against South Korea, I don't know what we would do about that. I don't know that we could stop them short of using nuclear weapons. -- Ben Stein
The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons... -- Robert Byrd
I think we've already voted at the U.N., in the Security Council, to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of them. Let's get rid of ours and then Iran will stop, I believe. And so everybody else will, because if everybody doesn't have them, then we're safe, at least safe from a nuclear attack. -- Ted Turner
As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if they are trying to develop nuclear weapons or not. Chances are they're developing what's called 'nuclear capability,' which many states have. That is the ability to have nuclear weapons if they decide to do it. That's not a crime. -- Noam Chomsky
In early 1961 a new president, John F. Kennedy, was told by military leaders and civilian officials that the Kingdom of Laos - of no conceivable strategic importance to the U.S. - required the presence of American troops and perhaps even tactical nuclear weapons. Why? Because if Laos fell, Asia would go red from Thailand to Indonesia. -- Jeff Greenfield
Five million Jews are regarding me as a traitor, but six billion people around the world think me as a hero and a good man who bring the message to all the human beings that we should survive and prevent the use of nuclear weapons and to prevent the nuclear preparations and to prevent nuclear war in the future. -- Mordechai Vanunu
Today, India is a nuclear weapons state. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Today, India is a nuclear weapons state. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Human race cannot coexist with nuclear weapons -- Iccho Itoh
We are categorically against proliferation of nuclear weapons. -- Sergei Lavrov
the use of nuclear weapons is Iran's right. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Nobody wants any country to have nuclear weapons. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Unfortunately, nuclear weapons have become identified with state power. -- John Burroughs
We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons. -- George Wald
We must abolish nuclear weapons, or they will abolish us. -- John F. Kennedy
Countries are making nuclear weapons like there is no tomorrow. -- Emo Philips
But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons. -- Joseph Rotblat
We woke up one day, and Pakistan had nuclear weapons. -- Rand Paul
[Saddam] Hussein maintains an active and aggressive nuclear weapons program. -- Sandy Berger
Nuclear weapons can be dismantled, but they cannot be uninvented. -- Martin Rees
The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves. -- Martin Amis
The American government is making nuclear weapons like there's no tomorrow. -- Emo Philips
A.I. poses a potential threat more dangerous than nuclear weapons. -- Judy Woodruff
The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Iran won't pursue nuclear weapons because 'it's contrary to their faith.' -- Barack Obama
We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence. -- John Spratt
We have evidence that Iran makes a reactor to possess nuclear weapons. -- Ariel Sharon
We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization. -- Daisaku Ikeda
North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons. -- John Bolton
I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
We must unite to make nuclear weapons a horror of the past. -- Michael Douglas
In fact, [Donald's Trump] cavalier attitude about nuclear weapons is so deeply troubling. -- Hillary Clinton
The world should contemplate a nuclear weapons-armed Iran with the greatest of concern. -- Daniel Fried
I feel relieved that we discovered that Iraq did not have nuclear weapons. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
There is only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons... use them. -- Rush Limbaugh
The overall quantity of nuclear weapons in the world continues to decline slowly. -- John Burroughs
If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too. -- Alan Sugar
Mistakes are made in every other human endeavor. Why should nuclear weapons be exempt? -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
We are against any WMD, any weapons of mass destruction, whether chemical or nuclear. -- Bashar al-Assad
We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. -- Richard Lugar
The only way to reduce the number of nuclear weapons is to use them. -- Rush Limbaugh
If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week. -- Bert Holldobler
The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
The biggest weapon of mass destruction in history is the AK-47, not Iranian nuclear weapons. -- Guy Lawson
The single greatest problem the world has is nuclear armament, nuclear weapons, not global warming. -- Donald Trump
Donald Trump's idea that more nations should get nuclear weapons. Saudi Arabia, Japan, South Korea. -- Tim Kaine
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes. -- David Foster Wallace
All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification. -- Ban Ki-moon
Politicians - well, first of all, they should get rid of nuclear weapons, I think. -- Abdus Salam
We seek the elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth. -- Ronald Reagan
Iran - the world's leading sponsor of terrorism - is close to having nuclear weapons. -- Newt Gingrich
Hillary Clinton's policies unleashed ISIS, spread terrorism and put Iran on a path to nuclear weapons. -- Donald Trump
The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern. -- Mitchell Reiss
Reducing the nuclear danger will require a universal, consistent opposition to all forms of weapons development -- David Cortright
I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
We are plunging headlong into a cold war, and we have 2,000 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert. -- Jill Stein
The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations. -- Robert McNamara
I would characterize current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous -- Robert McNamara
Choose the human race over the nuclear race. Bury the weapons and don't burn the people. -- Jesse Jackson
Japan is the only country in the world which suffered from the scourge of nuclear weapons. -- Yoshiro Mori
If you start getting instability in large powers with nuclear weapons, that's not a good day. -- David Titley
In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear. -- Nikita Khrushchev
We reject the way the world is at the moment and we don't accept nuclear weapons -- Mairead Corrigan
The only thing that will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons is regime change in Tehran. -- John Bolton
It's crazy that in a country where schools are falling apart, we're spending $20 billion on nuclear weapons. -- Ben Cohen
The spread of nuclear weapons is the greatest threat facing the country-and I would argue facing humanity. -- Joe Biden
They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations. -- Robert McNamara
My short-term vision is the abolition of nuclear weapons. My long-term vision is the abolition of war. -- Joseph Rotblat
As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight -- Noam Chomsky
All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial. -- Alva Myrdal
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. -- Arundhati Roy
The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
For an American president to be aiding America's enemy in developing nuclear weapons technology is unprecedented, absolutely. -- Liz Cheney
I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons. -- Donald Rumsfeld
We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons. -- Ban Ki-moon
North Korea. Not only does North Korean have nuclear weapons, but their leadership appears to not be rational. -- Ted Lieu
[Saddam Hussein is aggressively seeking nuclear and biological weapons and ] the United States may well become the target. -- Dick Cheney
A man you can bait with a Tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons. -- Hillary Clinton
The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk. -- Susan Rice

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