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It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.

While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.

We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained.

We can be just as safe with a smaller, more efficient nuclear arsenal at less cost.

The whole nuclear thing is a terrible mess and it's hard for me to understand why it is that we, the United States, seem to be the only ones that are really particularly concerned about it and prepared to do something.

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.

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