If you want to reduce nuclear weapons, get rid of bad judges, eliminate stupid laws…, you have my number.
Our purpose [is] to invite the present-day civilization to cast aside the staggering burden of armament.
The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.
There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament.
The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history.
A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict with the needs of the industrial system.
It is my fervent goal and hope... that we will someday no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth.
If we want our nuclear stockpile to truly serve the interests of our country in a strategic, balanced manner, we have to change course. That means pursuing creative options such as reducing the weapons held in reserve.
People will not disarm step by step; they will disarm at one blow or not at all.
