There is an international treaty framework for this. It's the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Most countries in the world are members of the treaty.

Certainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches of the armed services that are involved with nuclear weapons deployment, especially the naval submarine operations and also the air force's land-based ICBM operations. So they have a big lobby in Washington.

We've been in a period of relative stability and cooperation since the end of the Cold War among the world's major powers, but that may not always exist. And certainly one could even predict that there will be periods of hostility or tension ahead.

Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.

Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.