Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma Quotes

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

As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others.

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

A nuclear weapon is not just a football that you can use at will.

Limiting nuclear war is like limiting the mission of a match thrown in a keg of gunpowder.

In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere.

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

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

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.

The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence.

It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.

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

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

The way to win an atomic war is to make sure it never starts.

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.

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.

Disarmament has become the urgent imperative of our time. I do not say this because I equate the absence of arms to peace, or because I believe that bringing an end to the nuclear arms race automatically guarantees the peace, or because the elimination of nuclear warheads from the arsenals of the world will bring in its wake that change in attitude requisite to the peaceful settlement of disputes between nations. Disarmament is vital today, quite simply, because of the immense destructive capacity of which men dispose.

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

A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.

We will use nuclear weapons whenever it serves our vital interests.

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

Most of our thinking about nuclear weapons is a hangover from different era …. Much about war, peace and global security changed after Hiroshima and changed again … with the end of the Cold war. It is high time our thinking changed as well.

Nuclear proliferation has never entirely been brought under control, and the arsenals of nuclear powers contain bombs far more powerful than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I remember some of the limited debate I did back in high school in the late '70s, early '80s: nuclear proliferation was always the big topic, and it's bad. We don't want to see it.