Pervez Musharraf Quotes

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained.

This diffusion of nuclear weapons is terrible…terrible. Imagine a world with a large number of states with nuclear bombs.

I would not recommend the use of any atomic weapon, no matter how small, when both sides have the power to destroy the world.

Nuclear weapons exist. They probably always will. And they work, with horrible efficiency. They threaten the very future of our species. We have no choice but to manage that risk. Never again can we put the task out of our minds; nor trivialize it; nor make it routine.

We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.

One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Nut With A Nuke

There is only one thing worse than one nation having the atomic bomb -- that's two nations having it.

The first use of the nuclear weapon gives a great advantage to the user.

In the past, science has often been able to provide adequate protection against new weapons it has given into the hands of an aggressor, but it cannot promise such efficient protection against the destructive use of nuclear power

Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological nation plans for it.

I say in all sincerity that the nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons; their existence only adds to our perils because of the illusions which they have generated.

Israel’s development of nuclear capability would be a cause for war, no matter how suicidal it would be for us.

The lesson of history is when a war starts every nation will ultimately use whatever weapon it has available. ... Therefore, we must expect that if another war — a serious war — breaks out, we will use nuclear energy in some form.

The combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons can destroy nations.

Nuclear weapons are the greatest national security risk to the United States, and they are the most important weapons in our arsenal.

The atomic bomb was the turn of the screw. It has made the prospect of future war unendurable.

People tend to forget about nuclear weapons. We think they are going to remain in silos for the rest of time. As long as they exist, they are going to be used.

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.

I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many.

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.

Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact.

Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents.