“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
“For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states undertook, which was to work towards disarmament and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, is something that manifestly serves our national security interests.” StatesInterestUnitedUnited StatesSecurityWeaponsNuclearObligationNuclear WeaponsNational SecurityTreatiesDisarmamentEliminationProliferationNuclear DisarmamentNuclear ProliferationProliferation Treaty Author:Susan Rice
“The way the United States intelligence community operates is it doesn't limit itself to the protection of the homeland. It doesn't limit itself to countering terrorist threats, countering nuclear proliferation. It's also used for economic espionage, for political spying to gain some knowledge of what other countries are doing.” WayCountryStatesPoliticalUsedCommunityUnitedUnited StatesEconomicLimitsGainsThreatProtectionNuclearTerroristOther CountriesHomelandEspionageProliferationIntelligence CommunityNuclear Proliferation Author:Edward Snowden
“One of the greatest concerns that I had when I became President was the vast array of nuclear weapons in the arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union and a few other countries, and also the great proliferation of conventional weapons, non-nuclear weapons, particularly as a tremendous burden on the economies of developing or very poor countries.” CountryStatesPresidentPoorUnitedUnited StatesEconomyWeaponsConcernUnionsBurdenNuclearDevelopingSovietNuclear WeaponsConventionalOther CountriesSoviet UnionArsenalProliferationPoor Countries Author:Jimmy Carter
“The real threat to U.S. military power is nuclear proliferation, because if every little country has nuclear weapons it becomes very tricky for the United States to engage in military action.” IfsLittlesRealCountryStatesActionUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryWeaponsThreatNuclearNuclear WeaponsTrickyProliferationMilitary PowerNuclear ProliferationMilitary Action Author:Immanuel Wallerstein