Ronald Reagan Quotes About Nuclear Weapons

• I can't believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us. And I just think of what a sigh of relief would go up from everyone on this earth if someday-and this is what I have-my hope, way in the back of my head-is that if we start down the road to reduction, maybe one day in doing that, somebody will say, 'Why not all the way? Let's get rid of all these things'.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Believe, Thinking

• A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. The only value in our two nations possessing nuclear weapons is to make sure they will never be used. But then would it not be better to do away with them entirely?

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Two Nations, Nuclear Missiles

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

• We seek the elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  One Day, Nuclear, Earth

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.194, Humanix Books

• I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Peace, Mean

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.153, Humanix Books

• Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Growing Up, War

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

• Common sense told us that to preserve the peace, we'd have to become strong again after years of weakness and confusion. So, we rebuilt our defenses, and this New Year we toasted the new peacefulness around the globe. Not only have the superpowers actually begun to reduce their stockpiles of nuclear weapons...but the regional conflicts that rack the globe are also beginning to cease.

  Ronald Reagan

  New Year, Strong, Years

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

• My dream is to see the day when nuclear weapons will be banished from the face of the Earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Nuclear, Earth

  Ronald Reagan (1993). “Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, Greenwood Publishing Group

• The same technology transforming our lives can solve the greatest problem of the 20th century. A security shield can one day render nuclear weapons obsolete and free mankind from the prison of nuclear terror. America met one historic challenge and went to the Moon. Now America must meet another: to make our strategic defense real for all the citizens of planet Earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Real, Moon, Technology

  Reagan, Ronald (1988). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986”, p.129, Best Books on

• We're not just discussing limits on a further increase of nuclear weapons; we seek, instead, to reduce their number. We seek the total elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Numbers, One Day, Nuclear

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 1985, Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington D.C.

• It is my fervent goal and hope... that we will someday no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Goal, Effort, World

• My central arms control objective has been to reduce substantially and ultimately to eliminate nuclear weapons and rid the world of the nuclear threat. The prevention of the spread of nuclear explosives is to additional countries is an indispensable part of our efforts to meet this objective. I intend to continue my pursuit of this goal with untiring determination and a profound sense of personal commitment.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Determination, Commitment

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