If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.
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YOSHIRO MORI You don't build new nuclear-power plants for a country that's building up its military and threateni... DANA ROHRABACHER We also will take the lead in the international community to promote ... nuclear disarmament and nuc... JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear mis... JACQUES CHIRAC The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.' NAOTO KAN Iran is ready to transfer nuclear know-how to the Islamic countries due to their need. MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD Iran is ready to transfer nuclear know-how to the Islamic countries due to their need, MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD Iran is ready to transfer nuclear know-how to the Islamic countries due to their need. MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if... 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CONDOLEEZZA RICE Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, t... JOSEPH ROTBLAT U.S. trade policy is not just about the relationship between our nation and other countries. It is p... MARCIA FUDGE Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nat... J. B. PRITZKER Reagan was a statesman who, despite all disagreements that existed between our countries at the time... MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Reagan was a statesman who, despite all disagreements that existed between our countries at the time... MIKHAIL GORBACHEV there were no technical or judicial reasons for handing Iran's nuclear dossier to the U.N. Security ... GHOLAMREZA AGHAZADEH We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue ... MOHAMED ELBARADEI We do not wish to have nuclear weapons on New Zealand soil or in our harbors. We do not ask, we do n... DAVID LANGE India has a nuclear weapons for a long time. They are a country in good standing. It's time to recog... ASHTON CARTER The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact t... STEPHEN M. WALT Only the insecure strive for security. WAYNE DYER Honesty is the best Policy is the Capitalistic thought as it gives free of cost Security to their as... TARIF NAAZ Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes an... JEB BUSH Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and i... VLADIMIR PUTIN I am glad H&R Block says that revealing social security numbers is against its policy. The question ... ANDREW JAQUITH In this century, when evil men plot chemical, biological and nuclear terror, a policy of appeasement... 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