If ever there was an unnecessary weapon after the Cold War, it's nuclear weapons. We have nuclear capability to burn. This is a situation where the broader policy issues are more important than the job loss.

The lesson of the Cold War is that against nuclear weapons, only nuclear weapons can hold the peace.

The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.

The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

We won the Cold War because we showed nuclear vigilance and diligence.