Mohamed ElBaradei Quotes

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.

It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs.

Nobody wants any country to have nuclear weapons.

Why should every country of the world not develop nuclear weapons now that America may nuke anyone at any time? … Those of us in Pakistan and India who have long fought against nuclearization of the subcontinent have been temporarily rendered speechless

Nuclear proliferation is inevitable … the "middle powers" of the world are simply not going to accept having zero weapons while the United States has thousands.

We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program.

It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.

The greatest achievement of America in the last 70 years has been the prevention of a post Nagasaki nuclear proliferation.

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

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.

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

I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.

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.

Everyone knows that Israel has nuclear weapons, but no one is talking about it. The world doesn't want nuclear weapons - not in Israel, not in the Middle East and not anywhere in the world.

The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all.

We are categorically against any new military nuclear power, be it Iran, be it North Korea, be it anyone.

But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.

The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.

When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn't producing any more.

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

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

Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.

We've already seen proliferation. We started it with Britain, then France. Then we benignly let the Israelis do it. The Pakistanis and the Indians have recently done it. The Chinese have nuclear weapons.