Nuclear Weapons Quotes

• One of the greatest concerns that I had when I became President was the vast array of nuclear weapons in the arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union and a few other countries, and also the great proliferation of conventional weapons, non-nuclear weapons, particularly as a tremendous burden on the economies of developing or very poor countries.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • President
  • United States
  • Soviet Union

• The bottom line on nuclear weapons is that when the president gives the order, it must be followed. There's about four minutes between the order being given and the people responsible for launching nuclear weapons to do so. And that's why 10 people who have had that awesome responsibility have come out and, in an unprecedented way, said they would not trust Donald Trump with the nuclear codes or to have his finger on the nuclear button.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • President
  • Donald Trump
  • Nuclear codes

• The International Declaration of Human Rights says the right to housing, health, education should be guaranteed to everyone. The moment these things are provided, we will have a different world order and nuclear weapons will become less of a threat.

  

  Bernard Lown
  • Education
  • Human Rights
  • Nuclear Weapons

• On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time that the idea of the scientists' petition against nuclear weapons tests was born. That evening we discussed it at length after dinner at my house and various ones of those present were scribbling and suggesting paragraphs. But it was Linus Pauling himself who contributed the simple prose of the petition that was much superior to any of the suggestions we were making.

  

  Edward Condon
  • Students
  • Dinner
  • Scientists

• It's crazy that in a country where schools are falling apart, we're spending $20 billion on nuclear weapons.

  

  Ben Cohen
  • Country
  • Schools
  • Nuclear Weapons

• 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 of the victims.

  

  Bernard Lown
  • Suffering
  • Tragedy
  • Horror

• 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
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Rationalize
  • American Lives

• I see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential to make life unlivable on this planet.

  

  Bernard Lown
  • Evil
  • Planet
  • Nuclear Weapons

• The United States must not allow North Korea to exacerbate tensions between our key strategic allies in Asia. As the leader of the free world, the United States needs to support our regional allies who are standing up to a Stalinist regime that is intent on developing nuclear weapons.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Support
  • Leader
  • United States

• Presidents should be very careful at all times in discussing the use or non-use of nuclear weapons. Presidents since the cold war have used nuclear deterrence to keep the peace, and I don't believe that any president should make any blanket statements with respect to the use or non-use of nuclear weapons.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Presidents

• We must unite to make nuclear weapons a horror of the past.

  

  Michael Douglas
  • Past
  • Horror
  • Nuclear Weapons

• I don't want to use the term "nuclear weapons" because those people in Iran who have authority say they are not building nuclear weapons. I make an appeal to the countries who do have nuclear weapons. They don't consider them a nuclear threat. But let's say a country that doesn't have nuclear weapons gets involved in building them, then they are told by those that already have nuclear weapons that they oppose such a development. Where is the justice in that?

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Justice
  • Authority
  • Nuclear Weapons

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

  

  George Wald
  • Balance
  • Terror
  • Nuclear Weapons

• If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.

  

  Bert Holldobler
  • World
  • Nuclear Weapons

• With nuclear weapons, you'd think you would probably stop after killing 100million. Smallpox won't stop. Because the population is naïve, and there are no real preparations. That, if it got out and spread, would be a larger number.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Killing
  • Nuclear Weapons

• The important thing is what we do, and not the deceitful theory of reading others' intentions. This is also a new thing — they say: "We know that Iran's intention is to pursue nuclear weapons." Do you have a device that reads intentions?

  

  Ali Larijani
  • Theory
  • Intentions
  • Nuclear Weapons

• 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
  • Iran
  • Human Rights
  • Nuclear Weapons

• I am against nuclear weapons, regardless of whether they are in the hands of Iran or Israel or any Western country. But obviously some states are allowed to have weapons of mass destruction while others are not.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Destruction
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Western Country

• The worst part of what we heard Donald Trump say has been about nuclear weapons. He has said repeatedly that he didn't care if other nations got nuclear weapons, Japan, South Korea, even Saudi Arabia. It has been the policy of the United States, Democrats and Republicans, to do everything we could to reduce the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Donald Trump
  • Nuclear Weapons

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