Robert M. Gates Quotes About Nuclear Weapons

Quotes about: Nuclear Weapons

• I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.

  Robert M. Gates

  Thinking, Iran, Race

• I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?

  Robert M. Gates

  Country, Zero, Mean

• Some people have said, in so many words, that I'm kind of wooly-headed in believing that the Iranians would see not having nuclear weapons as more in their security interest than not.

  Robert M. Gates

  Believe, People, Weapons

• Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there were in fact no weapons of nuclear - weapons of mass destruction.

  Robert M. Gates

  War, Iraq, Mass Destruction

• My one concern is that Hu Jintao may overestimate how much power China has in Pyongyang. They have - they do have influence, and they do have companies, and they do have economic relationships that could make life much more difficult in the north. Their balancing act is, "How much worse can we make it in the north without creating that which scares us more than anything, which is a collapse in the north." And then what happens to all those nuclear weapons. So they're going to work very hard to avoid that.

  Robert M. Gates

  Scare, Influence, Economic

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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