Nuclear War Quotes - Page 2

• Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Proliferation

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  War, Feelings, Nuclear

  "Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years" by Daniel Ellsberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2009.

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• Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.

  Norman Thomas

  War, People, Likes

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• If there was a war, a big war, a major war on the planet, it would be a nuclear war, and it would destroy all life, human and subhuman, on planet earth.

  Benjamin Creme

  War, Would Be, Nuclear

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

  George Wald

  War, Self, Nuclear

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• This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.

  James Lovelock

  Crazy, War, Sigh Of Relief

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• I think if journalists were responsible for international policy we'd have a nuclear war every week.

  Tony Benn

  War, Thinking, Week

  Source: designermagazine.tripod.com

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• Nuclear war can ruin your whole compile.

  Karl Lehenbauer

  Funny, War, Science

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• What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences of his own folly. With a little wisdom and foresight, surely it is not yet necessary to forsake life in the fresh air and in the warmth of the sunlight. What a paradox if our own cleverness in science should force us to live underground with the moles.

  J. William Fulbright

  Men, Air, Moles

  "Fulbright of Arkansas: The Public Positions of a Private Thinker". Book by J. William Fulbright, 1963.

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• Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  War, Men, Done

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• I have this very positive view of the world getting better and better. The list of things that could be huge setbacks is not very long: A nuclear war, climate change and epidemics.

  Bill Gates

  War, Epidemics, Views

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There will never be a nuclear war; there's too much real estate involved.

  Frank Zappa

  Real, War, Nuclear

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• Today, we take the risk of nuclear war quite seriously, climate change not so much and epidemics least of all. But no single country, not even the United States, is well prepared. And even if one country is doing the right things to protect itself, it has to be a global thing.

  Bill Gates

  Country, War, Epidemics

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Peace, War, Nuclear

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• it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my own part i would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Struggle, Survival

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Some of the American military obviously were thinking in terms of fighting a nuclear war. I was opposed to that.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Military, War, Fighting

  "War And Peace In The Nuclear Age". WGBH Educational Foundation interview, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. November 12, 1987.

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• When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some 15,000 nuclear warheads, active and in reserve. Fifteen thousand weapons with an average yield of 20 Hiroshima bombs.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Yield, Average, Nuclear

  "Remember Your Humanity". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. 1995.

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• People on this planet are currently preparing to blow themselves up in ultimate thermonuclear wars. We are living among beings whose state of mind is destruction.

  Frederick Lenz

  War, Buddhism, Blow

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• [Nuclear war]... may not be desirable.

  Edwin Meese

  War, Nuclear, May

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• The entire world will be in nuclear war, and only the Swiss will be going, 'what's that noise?'

  Robin Williams

  War, Noise, Nuclear

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• The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an investigation of the governing physics.

  Carl Sagan

  War, Winter, Science

  "A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 26, 1990.

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• Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

  Herman Kahn

  War, Emotional, People

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• I not only saw the possibility of nuclear war, I feared it very much. If they started a military conflagration, it would automatically lead to nuclear warfare.

  Stefan Heym

  Military, War, Nuclear

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• Donald Trump believes that the world will be safer if more nations have nuclear weapons. And he's said Saudi Arabia should get them, Japan should get them, Korea should get them. And when he was confronted with this, and told, wait a minute, terrorists could get those, proliferation could lead to nuclear war, here's what Donald Trump said, and I quote: "Go ahead, folks, enjoy yourselves."

  Tim Kaine

  War, Believe, Waiting

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• At 2:26 AM on 3 June 1980, Colonel William Odom of the Strategic Air Command alerted National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski that the US nuclear warning system had detected an imminent 220-missile nuclear attack on the US. Shortly thereafter, the automated system revised its projection from 220 missiles to an all-out attack of 2200 missiles. Just before Brzezinski was about to wake up President Carter to authorize a counterattack, he was told that the 'attack' was an illusion caused by 'a computer error in the system'.

  Stansfield Turner

  Air, Errors, June

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