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Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.

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 larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

Judy, we think that since the 11th of September, 2001, we've faced a similar heightened threat level. And we've been enhancing both the exchange of intelligence and security information and the assessment of that information, because that's the crucial element.

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

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.