Quotes About Strategy

We've already seen proliferation. We started it with Britain, then France. Then we benignly let the Israelis do it. The Pakistanis and the Indians have recently done it. The Chinese have nuclear weapons.

This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack.

The sole purpose of nuclear weapons must be to deter their use by others.

If Iran and North Korea, by some horrible, devilish, nightmarish scenario, got together and went to war at the same time, one against Saudi Arabia and one against South Korea, I don't know what we would do about that. I don't know that we could stop them short of using nuclear weapons.

We have an active program. We have nuclear weapons, we are a nuclear power. We have an advanced missiles program.

We will not negotiate with anyone about our weapons and defenses, and we will make and store as many weapons, facilities, and missiles as we need.

U.S. nuclear weapons that are available for presidential use are targeted against broad ocean areas.

The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.

Sanctions aren't about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that.

From when I was a young boy, I read books on weapons and tanks and combat. I was so interested in the army.

I do not agree that South Korea needs to develop our own nuclear weapons or relocate tactical nuclear weapons in the face of North Korea's nuclear threat.

But I still serve pretty big and that's one of my biggest weapons, so if my shoulder holds up and I can count on it, I can win a few matches and then you never know how the other guys are going to react to the fatigue and the length of the matches.

The problem with cyber weapons for a country like ours is the ability to control them.

Some amount of fear of nuclear weapons is necessary for nuclear deterrence to work.

But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.

I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction.

We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.

The Iraqi military are able to deploy these weapons within 45 minutes of a decision to do so.

Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program.

We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security.

Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons.

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

Some people have said, in so many words, that I'm kind of wooly-headed in believing that the Iranians would see not having nuclear weapons as more in their security interest than not.

Wars should be fought with words, not bombs, not weapons. And calm words. I think that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a cup of something to drink.