The Problem of Nuclear Weapons You would think that the nuclear issue would be the easiest to get across, but you're still doing it. No one wants a nuclear war.
Nobody wants the world blown up.
No one wants not to have a good life for their grandchildren. First of all, when I arrived in the Senate, the Cold War was going on. It was pretty ferocious, very dangerous, and the idea of abolishing nuclear weapons was a hopeless idea. You couldn't expect the Russian leadership to do it, and you couldn't expect us to do it at that time, under those circumstances. The best we could do eventually, and this began in the late seventies, early eighties, was talk about a ceiling on the number of missiles and weapons of a nuclear nature that each of us, we and the Russians, would have.