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


Daisaku Ikeda

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TERRY PRATCHETT if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
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OLIVER NORTH A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world
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DENNIS WILDER North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.
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JEB BUSH a production line of nuclear weapons ... will not be permitted.
SAM NUNN take pragmatic and effective steps to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass...
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