Rush Limbaugh Quotes

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

I'd be the last one to use the nuclear weapons, because that's sort of like the end of the ballgame.

Israel has a sizeable nuclear arsenal and could retaliate if it were attacked.

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all costs'. what is the point of having one?

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.

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

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.

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

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

In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.

American forces there could probably be cut by at least one-third if NATO commanders had the power to use nuclear weapons on their own initiative in an emergency.

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

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

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.

We were able and we had a plan to launch nuclear test in 1984, but then President General Zia had opposed the move.

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 woke up one day, and Pakistan had nuclear weapons.

The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that's all it is, then we've gotta as: how many nuclear weapons do you need to do that?

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.

What is the only provocation that could bring about the use of nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the priority target for nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the only established defense against nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. How do we prevent the use of nuclear weapons? By threatening to use nuclear weapons. And we can't get rid of nuclear weapons, because of nuclear weapons. The intransigence, it seems, is a function of the weapons themselves.

Donald Trump is a person who has been very cavalier, even casual about the use of nuclear weapons.

That's a point that Dan Ellsberg has made for years. He said it's kind of like if you and I go into a grocery store to rob it, and I have a gun. The guy may give you the money in the cash register. I'm using the gun even if I don't shoot. Well that's nuclear weapons - essential to post-war deterrence - they cast a shadow over everything.