Nuclear Deterrence Quotes:

The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence.

- Joseph Rotblat

source: Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.131, I.B.Tauris

topic: Philosophy, Nuclear, Deterrence, Nuclear Deterrence

Our nuclear free status means that we decline to acquiesce in the strategies of nuclear deterrence. We will not turn a blind eye to them, and pretend that the weapons are no longer a threat. We will not in any way tolerate the testing of nuclear weapons, or their manufacture, or their deployment.

- David Lange

source: David Lange's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

topic: Mean, Eye, Deployment, Deterrence, Nuclear Deterrence

Presidents should be very careful at all times in discussing the use or non-use of nuclear weapons. Presidents since the cold war have used nuclear deterrence to keep the peace, and I don't believe that any president should make any blanket statements with respect to the use or non-use of nuclear weapons.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: War, Believe, President, Deterrence, Discussing

Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe.

- Bill Gates

source: Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

topic: Deterrence, Nuclear Deterrence

New Zealand’s nuclear free movement is a broad-based and popular movement. Our nuclear free status is a challenge to much that is accepted as orthodox in international relations. It was formally adopted in the cold war era as a form of resistance to the dismal doctrines of nuclear deterrence. It is still a rebuke to the unprincipled exercise of economic power and military might.

- David Lange

source: David Lange's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

topic: Military, War, Exercise, Deterrence, Free Movement

I repeat what I suggest in my book [ Strategie de la deception]. The first deterrence, nuclear deterrence, is presently being superseded by the second deterrence: a type of deterrence based on what I call 'the information bomb' associated with the new weaponry of information and communications technologies.

- Paul Virilio

source: Source: ctheory.net

topic: Book, Communication, Technology, Information And Communication, Deterrence