Pierre Trudeau Quotes

The truth is, as long as nuclear weapons exist, we are not safe.

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.

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

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"

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.

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This diffusion of nuclear weapons is terrible…terrible. Imagine a world with a large number of states with nuclear bombs.

The combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons can destroy nations.

To me, nuclear weapons are the secret crisis of our time. Frankly, everyone needs to reread John Hersey's 'Hiroshima.'

The overarching problem is one of the survival of humanity in the face of the growing nuclear menace. If those bombs go off, nothing else would matter.

People tend to forget about nuclear weapons. We think they are going to remain in silos for the rest of time. As long as they exist, they are going to be used.

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.

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

My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained.

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

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

I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there is no margin for error?

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.

We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.

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

In the past, science has often been able to provide adequate protection against new weapons it has given into the hands of an aggressor, but it cannot promise such efficient protection against the destructive use of nuclear power

Any possession of nuclear weapons in the Middle East is a danger.

The way to win an atomic war is to make sure it never starts.