Nuclear Proliferation - Dialogue Journal

"The survivors would envy the dead."

Nikita Khrushchev, Pravda, 20 July 1963

"From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive."

Pope John Paul II, Address in Hiroshima, 1981

"In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the long afternoon it would take for all the missiles and bombs to fall. A World War II every second--more people killed in the first few hours than all the wars of history put together. The survivors, if any, would live in despair amid the poisoned ruins of a civilization that had committed suicide."  

President Jimmy Carter, Farewell Address to the American People, 14 January 1981

"I want to go to zero, and I'll tell you why: If we and the Russians can go to zero nuclear weapons, then think what that does for us in our efforts to counter the new war...Think how intolerant we will be of nations that are developing nuclear weapons if we have none. Think of the high moral ground we secure by having none...It's kind of hard for us to say to North Korea, `You are terrible people, you're developing a nuclear weapons,' when we have oh, 8,000."  

General Charles Horner, Commander of U.S. Space Command, 15 July 1994

"Nuclear weapons are clearly inhumane weapons in obvious violation of international law. So long as such weapons exist, it is inevitable that the horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be repeated -- somewhere, sometime -- in an unforgivable affront to humanity itself." 

Takashi Hiraoka, Mayor of Hiroshima, Hiroshima Peace Declaration, 6 August 1995