And we've agreed on the goal, and that is that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon, the capacity to make a nuclear weapon, or the knowledge as to how to make a nuclear weapon.
Notably, at the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference in New York where this statement was unveiled, some among the roughly 500 participating non- governmental organizations (NGOs) declared their intention to ask the World Court to order the nuclear weapon states to set a timetable for complete nuclear disarmament.
Secondly, as that experience suggests, there is no basis for believing all nuclear weapon states would abide by a new undertaking to abolish their nuclear arsenals.
And we recognized the value of national negative security assurances -- assurances that the United States and other nuclear powers have made that we will not threaten -- use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against other state -- non-nuclear weapon states who are in full compliance with their NPT, nuclear non-proliferation obligations.
Because of the damage that a single nuclear weapon can do, an overlapping defense capability is required against a nuclear attack.
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Iran denies it is trying to build a nuclear weapon and has taken steps in recent months to reduce its stores of high-level nuclear material.
The NPT offered non-nuclear weapon states all the know-how and most of the materials they needed to become nuclear armed, if only they promised not to do so.
The world has gone over sixty years without another detonation of a nuclear weapon in warfare.
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India and Pakistan declared themselves nuclear weapon states when they tested atomic bombs in 1998.
He will take every action necessary to ensure that Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon.
Indeed, the entire world has an interest in preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
All of that is with the goal of preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
Were Iraq to acquire a deliverable nuclear weapon, it would gain a measure of invulnerability.
By contrast, the United States has not introduced a new nuclear weapon in over fifteen years.
The President has made clear that he is committed to preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
There are risks that an Iranian nuclear weapon could fall into the hands of a terrorist organization.
He is also quite clear that he is absolutely committed to preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
President Obama has made clear that it is his policy to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
This reduced the nuclear weapon stockpiles of Russia and the U.S. for the first time in 20 years.
The U.S. hasn't built a nuclear weapon in more than two decades and the manufacturing infrastructure has disappeared.
In his responses, Hagel adopted a hard line on Iran and its possible pursuit of a nuclear weapon.
The distressing truth is that Obama's aim has never been to prevent Teheran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
So, again, this administration has expressed a very firm commitment to preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
And the President remains committed to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Speaking at Israel's most high profile strategic conference, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz warned Iran against pursuing a nuclear weapon.
The alloyed material "could not be readily converted to make a nuclear weapon, " said Eastman Kodak spokesman Christopher Veronda.
Their security interests will not be served by possession of a nuclear weapon.
President Obama has said Iran must be stopped from "possessing" a nuclear weapon.
The new report reverses the conclusion of two years ago that Iran was actively working on a nuclear weapon.
Bush also reiterated his call to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon.
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