Des Browne Quotes

You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!

We have a moral imperative to keep up the search for something better than mutual assured destruction.

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

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

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

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

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

We don't need another nuclear arms race to proceed a pace and then to encourage other countries to become very, to develop these kinds of capabilities also. This is not what we need.

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.

The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use it.

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.

So, we need to delegitimize the nuclear weapon, and by de-legitimizing... meaning trying to develop a different system of security that does not depend on nuclear deterrence.

So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.

So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.

The nuclear weapon is obsolete.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

I can't understand why anyone would want nuclear warheads. If you shoot them off, it's not like you can take over that country-all you do is kill millions of people.

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

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

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

I could not conceive of any President engaging in all-out nuclear war unless we were in danger of all-out devastation ourselves.

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