Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use it.
We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.
Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.
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.
The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.
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 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.
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.
We are categorically against proliferation of nuclear weapons.