Susan Rice Quotes

North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries of dictatorships or whatever: if you don't want to be invaded by America, get some nuclear weapons.

The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.

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

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.

Nuclear weapons are infinitely less important in our foreign policy than they were in the days of the Cold War. I don't think we need nuclear weapons any longer.

What are the implications of a China that may be on nuclear parity with the United States?

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?

The greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran. A nuclear North Korea is already troubling enough.

I don't like the fact that North Korea is testing nuclear weapons, and I don't like the fact that they're testing missiles and shooting them out in the sea in kind of an antagonistic fashion.

The nightmare of the Cold War was nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person. I don't want to live through that nightmare.

We are plunging headlong into a cold war, and we have 2,000 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert.

I'm worried just as much about Donald Trump as that crazy guy in North Korea - and he has a nuclear code. I'm worrying about that.

That is potentially putting us all in the target hairs now is the reactivation of a new nuclear arms race. This arms race and this cold war is potentially hotter than it's been at any time in my lifetime.

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.

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

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

The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

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.

The world should be very clear about making sure that Iran does not get nuclear weapons, period.

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use it.

One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.

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