George Lee Butler Quotes

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.

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

In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere.

The salvation of the world ultimately lies in moving towards universal nuclear disarmament, but that's a long distance away.

Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.

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

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The only sure way to eliminate the threat posed by nuclear weapons is to eliminate the weapons themselves.

I remember some of the limited debate I did back in high school in the late '70s, early '80s: nuclear proliferation was always the big topic, and it's bad. We don't want to see it.

Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.

We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.

We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.

You know, people have actually changed the way they think about nuclear weapons now, post-Cold War, post-9/11. The threat of nuclear weapons is not so much Russia attacking the United States, China. It's not a state-to-state - it's obviously terrorism; it's proliferation.

I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.

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.

It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs.

Everyone knows that Israel has nuclear weapons, but no one is talking about it. The world doesn't want nuclear weapons - not in Israel, not in the Middle East and not anywhere in the world.

We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.