Douglas Brinkley Quotes

We probably could more successfully resolve the North Korean nuclear threat through game-theoretic reasoning. We could successfully resolve what American leaders seem to perceive as an Iranian nuclear threat through game-theoretic reasoning.

You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.

Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together.

I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.

The biggest problem that we have on the face of the planet is Iran getting a nuclear weapon.

A nuclear armed Iran makes the world less safe, less stable, less secure.

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.

The world should be very clear about making sure that Iran does not get nuclear weapons, period.

There are signs that the Arab states are beginning to realize that a nuclear-armed Iran would be a threat to the entire region, and not just to Israel.

North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.

If Iran gets nuclear weapons we are near to the apocalypse.

If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?

The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don't want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon.

The greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran. A nuclear North Korea is already troubling enough.

There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.

If you're gonna sit there and be worried about what Donald Trump would do with nuclear weapons, you've got to know that it's Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton who have made it possible for Iran to nuke up, and that's in nobody's best interests. That's not in the best interests of our ally, Israel. It's not in the best interests of ourselves.

There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.

If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its influence and that of Hamas and Hezbollah are strengthened.

But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate steps were taken to correct our inability to collect on the movement of nuclear material out of the Soviet Union to other places.

The North Koreas of the world are trying very hard to acquire the material they need to acquire nuclear weapons, as is the case with Iran.

The Arab view that someone should bomb Iran and stop it from developing nuclear weapons is familiar to anyone who meets privately with Arab leaders, especially in the Gulf.

In the end, for all of Obama's grand rhetoric on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, history has doomed him to preside over the emergence of two rogue nuclear regimes (North Korea and Iran).

I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis.

If a country is suspected of going nuclear, you need to understand why. Why does it feel insecure?