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We favor a strong nonproliferation program that emphasizes diplomacy, reliance on multilateral regimes, controls on nuclear materials, and cooperative nuclear threat reduction. -- George W. Bush
Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear threat. -- Alva Myrdal
Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes, without thinking, all the other species around it. -- Verlyn Klinkenborg
We probably could more successfully resolve the North Korean nuclear threat through game-theoretic reasoning. We could successfully resolve what American leaders seem to perceive as an Iranian nuclear threat through game-theoretic reasoning. -- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
American strategic [nuclear] forces do not exist solely for the purpose of deterring a Soviet nuclear threat or attack against the U.S. itself. Instead, they are intended to support U.S. foreign policy. -- Colin S. Gray
The Middle East is the tinder box of the world, and to be able to remove a nuclear threat of any kind out of Iran, that would have been a big deal, very positive step forward. -- Douglas Brinkley
Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope. -- James Howe
We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away. -- Kevin Costner
We have marched in lockstep with Israel. We've been side by side with them as they've confronted the Iranian nuclear threat and we'll continue to be. All options do remain on the table. That's something that we've said all along. That continues to be the case. -- Josh Earnest
I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war. -- Alastair Reynolds
The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism. -- Noam Chomsky
The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel. -- Robert M. Gates
Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam. -- Daniel Ellsberg
What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel. -- Sigmar Gabriel
For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place. -- William S. Cohen
The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real. -- Tony Blair
Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and abhorrent human rights practices pose one of the greatest threats to global security. -- Allyson Schwartz
My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that. -- John McCain
There are signs that the Arab states are beginning to realize that a nuclear-armed Iran would be a threat to the entire region, and not just to Israel. -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not only of the region but beyond. -- Hillary Clinton
Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place. -- Charles Krauthammer
Israel claims it needs nuclear weapons as a deterrent against any threat to its existence. The Arab world in return feels that this is an imbalanced system; there is a sense of humiliation and impotence. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated - preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. -- Thomas Sowell
The United States must also continue to push the United Nations Security Council for strong action to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. In the meantime, it is our job to take meaningful steps to eliminate the threats posed by Iran. -- Allyson Schwartz
For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism. -- Greg Bear
Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons. -- Joseph Rotblat
Nuclear is the single greatest threat. -- Donald Trump
A.I. poses a potential threat more dangerous than nuclear weapons. -- Judy Woodruff
[T]he greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran. -- Mitt Romney
The spread of nuclear weapons is the greatest threat facing the country-and I would argue facing humanity. -- Joe Biden
If nuclear warfare is believed to be somewhat controlled, then climate change is now the greatest threat. -- Graciela Chichilnisky
The threat of nuclear terrorism is growing faster than our ability to prevent an attack on our homeland. -- Joe Lieberman
If you don't believe...Saddam Hussein is a threat with nuclear weapons, then you shouldn't vote for me. -- John F. Kerry
As far as the nuclear is concerned, I agree. It is the single greatest threat that this country has. -- Donald Trump
Iran is determined to use peaceful nuclear technology and no intimidation or threat can make us give it up. -- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
The gravest threat faced by the world is of an extremist group getting hold of nuclear weapons or materials. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place. -- William S. Cohen
The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind. -- Nigel Calder
By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction. -- Dalai Lama
The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world. -- Alvin Toffler
Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive a nuclear war. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, ofthe power and strength of a great nation. -- Jimmy Carter
The pursuit by the Iranian regime of nuclear weapons represents a direct threat to the entire international community, including to the United States and to the Persian Gulf region. -- Condoleezza Rice

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