Ronald Reagan Quotes

Barack Obama has injected fresh momentum into efforts - stalled for a decade - to bring about nuclear disarmament.

It is my strong hope that an environment will be created in which both of our countries can cooperate for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons.

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

If we wish to convince countries like Iran that the development of nuclear weapons is not in their best interest, we need to demonstrate that maintaining or enhancing our own arsenal is not in our interest.

There is a clear norm against the spread of nuclear weapons, but there is no consensus or treaty on what, if anything, is to be done once a country develops or acquires nuclear weapons.

I can't believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us. And I just think of what a sigh of relief would go up from everyone on this earth if someday-and this is what I have-my hope, way in the back of my head-is that if we start down the road to reduction, maybe one day in doing that, somebody will say, 'Why not all the way? Let's get rid of all these things'.

The use of a mere dozen nuclear weapons ... would be a human catastrophe without parallel. ... Because so few weapons can kill so many people, even far-reaching disarmament proposals would leave us implicated in plans for unprecedented slaughter of innocent people. The sole measure that can free us from this burden is abolition.

We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.

But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons.

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

We are categorically against proliferation of nuclear weapons.

A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.

Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.

It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished.

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.

I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.

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

We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. This will require persistent efforts by all countries and peoples. A nuclear war would affect everyone, and all have a stake in preventing this nightmare.

In the spirit of commitment to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, we will strive to achieve real progress in disarmament and arms control.

For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states undertook, which was to work towards disarmament and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, is something that manifestly serves our national security interests.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them is dismantling about 2,000 nuclear warheads a year.

When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons.

All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.

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