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We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.

There are some people that will be deterred by the fact that we have nuclear weapons... But those people are the folks we can deal with anyway.

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others.

The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use it.

The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence.

We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who are in a security bind, if you like, or perceive themselves to be in security bind to look for acquisition of nuclear weapons.

Nuclear weapons are infinitely less important in our foreign policy than they were in the days of the Cold War. I don't think we need nuclear weapons any longer.