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We are categorically against any new military nuclear power, be it Iran, be it North Korea, be it anyone.

People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.

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

We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.

The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.

Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea.

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

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

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.

We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.