Lal Bahadur Shastri Quotes

I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.

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.

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.

I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

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

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.

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.

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

Yesterday, we fought wars which destroyed cities. Today, we are concerned with avoiding a war which will destroy the earth. We can adapt atomic energy to produce electricity and move ships, but can we control its use in anger?

I say the word N-U-C-L-E-R the same way that George W. Bush says it.

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

If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry.

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

The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region.

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.

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

You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.

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

In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

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

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.

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.