We do, after all, have the case of A.Q. Khan, who, for 20 years, sold secrets of nuclear weapons production to countries around the world, ... It took about 18 years before we discovered it and managed to stop it.

real danger [was] not so much that Saddam would pass along the secrets of weapons of mass destruction, but scientists and engineers in their desperate desire to better themselves, to keep their families alive, might well have sold these secrets.

The weapons do not exist.

The Iraqis had over two decades to develop these weapons. And hiding them was an essential part of their program.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

We are categorically against proliferation of nuclear weapons.