Donald Trump Quotes

It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.

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

They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.

I have said publicly no option should be off the table, but I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table.

We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who are in a security bind, if you like, or perceive themselves to be in security bind to look for acquisition of nuclear weapons.

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

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

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.

Dwight Eisenhower… supported the nuclearization of the military and the militarization of nuclear weapons as a cost saving way of deterring the Soviets. Under Eisenhower, custody or nuclear weapons shifted from the civilian Atomic Energy Commission to the military.

Donald Trump is a person who has been very cavalier, even casual about the use of nuclear weapons.

As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight.

If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all costs'. what is the point of having one?

[Nuclear war]... may not be desirable.

The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself.

Thee are such horrible weapons. And so no sane leader would ever want to cross that line to using nuclear weapons. And, if you are not going to cross that line, then these things are basically useless.

Nuclear is the single greatest threat.

The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.

If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim.

If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.

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

American forces there could probably be cut by at least one-third if NATO commanders had the power to use nuclear weapons on their own initiative in an emergency.

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

I view current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary and dreadfully dangerous, creating unacceptable risks to other nations and to our own"

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