Charles Bass Quotes

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery is a threat to both the Nato allies and Russia.

I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.

China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.

Iran is actively pursuing the development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

The goal [of disarmament] is no longer a dream. It is a practical matter of life or death. The risks inherent in disarmament pale in comparison to the risks inherent in an unlimited arms race...

In the real world of real political leaders a decision that would bring even one hydrogen bomb on one city of one's own country would be recognized as a catastrophic blunder.

When the President of Iran talks about removing Israel from the face of the Earth and is building nuclear bombs with a range of 3000km, you have to be worried.

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

Israel will not tolerate a situation in which Iran has effective control of non-conventional weapons that can be used directly against the state of Israel.

I'm not an expert on the arms race.

Nuclear weapons are infinitely less important in our foreign policy than they were in the days of the Cold War. I don't think we need nuclear weapons any longer.

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

There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.

The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence.

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

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

Israel has many hopes, and faces extreme dangers. The most prominent danger is Iran, which is making every effort to acquire nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, and establishing an enormous terror network together with Syria in Lebanon.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

Pakistan has made no mention of ending our tests. We have a missile program, and it is in the national interest whatever we want to do.

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

We can do better than condone a world in which nuclear weapons are accepted as commonplace.

Any possession of nuclear weapons in the Middle East is a danger.