Immanuel Wallerstein Quotes

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

We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.

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.

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.

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

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

To be a major power, a country must 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 weapons are the greatest national security risk to the United States, and they are the most important weapons in our arsenal.

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.

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.

But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

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.

Nuclear weapons are what make us a great power.

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

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

The fewer nuclear weapons possessed by the fewest countries is safer, not only because of the possibility of a nuclear accident but also a 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.

It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.

We woke up one day, and Pakistan had nuclear weapons.

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