Eric Schlosser Quotes

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

The greatest achievement of America in the last 70 years has been the prevention of a post Nagasaki nuclear proliferation.

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

A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.

We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.

You can’t go making new nuclear weapons and talk to the rest of the world about giving them up.

Nuclear weapons exist. They probably always will. And they work, with horrible efficiency. They threaten the very future of our species. We have no choice but to manage that risk. Never again can we put the task out of our minds; nor trivialize it; nor make it routine.

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

Maintaining a U. S. Nuclear Arsenal presents only one benefit today: deterring the use of nuclear weapons by others. Thus, there is simply no reason for nuclear weapons to play a central role in U. S. Defense Policy any longer.

I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.

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

We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.

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

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.

The nuclear weapon is obsolete.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

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

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.

Nut With A Nuke

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

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

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

I would not recommend the use of any atomic weapon, no matter how small, when both sides have the power to destroy the world.

I say in all sincerity that the nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons; their existence only adds to our perils because of the illusions which they have generated.