Kim Jong-un Quotes

It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.

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

Nuclear proliferation has never entirely been brought under control, and the arsenals of nuclear powers contain bombs far more powerful than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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.

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

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.

So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.

There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one.

But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.

Nuclear weapons are what make us a great power.

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

This diffusion of nuclear weapons is terrible…terrible. Imagine a world with a large number of states with nuclear bombs.

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.

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

The sole purpose of nuclear weapons must be to deter their use by others.

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.

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.

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.

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

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.

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.