“By and large, the world wants to move away from the nuclear era. The question is how fast and how far. In a world of sovereign nation-states, I can't rationalize any number above zero. If it's more than zero, you have to acknowledge every nation has the right to have them.” IfsWorldWantI CanStatesMovingNationsNumbersNuclearErasAcknowledgeZeroSovereignRationalize Author:George Lee Butler
“Mammoth organizations, these ponderous processes. Many people don't realize that the nuclear capability that this country [USA] amassed and maintained over the period of the Cold War cost $6 trillion .” PeopleWarCountryProcessRealizingColdPeriodsCostOrganizationNuclearUsaCapabilityCold War Author:George Lee Butler
“It is the foremost responsibility of the United States, having been the predominant nuclear power, to take the lead in scaling this back and making good on its signed and sealed and ratified obligation in Article 6 of the non-proliferation treaty going back to '68 to eliminate this nuclear arsenal. That's a serious international obligation.” StatesUnitedResponsibilityUnited StatesSeriousInternationalNuclearObligationArticlesTreatiesArsenalNuclear PowerProliferationLead InProliferation Treaty Author:George Lee Butler
“It is a measure of the arrogance of nations - but especially of the nuclear-weapon states - to assert that a nuclear-weapons-free world is impossible when, in fact, ninety-five percent of the nations of the world already are nuclear free.” WorldStatesFactsNationsFiveImpossibleWeaponsPercentNuclearArroganceNuclear WeaponsNinetyFree World Author:George Lee Butler
