Nuclear War Quotes - Page 6

• I shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerging a victor from it. No matter what the attacker might possess, no matter what method of unleashing nuclear war he chooses, he will not attain his aims. Retribution will inevitably ensue.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Suicide, War, Add

  "Soviet Strategy and the New Military Thinking". Book by Derek Leebaert and Timothy Dickinson, p. 68, 1992.

  44 Copy quote

  Show source

• We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack?

  Peter Sellers

  War, Nuclear, Want

  "Fictional character: Captain Mandrake". "Dr. Strangelove", 1964.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them and achieve something better. Nobody, however, likes to think about anything unpleasant, even to avoid it. And so the crucial problem of thermonuclear war is frequently dispatched with the label 'War is unthinkable' -- which, translated freely, means we don't want to think about it.

  Albert Wohlstetter

  War, Learning, Mean

  4 Copy quote

• How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a dozen or more regions like melons in a field, is not easy to imagine.

  Herbert Schiller

  People, Nuclear, World

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a nuclear war, even if one side were to come out ahead by systems analytical standards, both sides would be so weakened, that it would - they would be in the position of Europe after the two World Wars.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  War, Europe, Two

  4 Copy quote

• A nuclear war does not defend a country and it does not defend a system. I've put it the same way many times; not even the most accomplished ideologue will be able to tell the difference between the ashes of capitalism and the ashes of communism.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, War, Differences

  "The Ashes of Capitalism and the Ashes of Communism". "Quest for Peace: an Introduction". Book edited by John M. Whiteley, 1986.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Growing Up, War

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1970). “A way of seeing”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The only good thing about nuclear war is that it is the single most egalitarian idea that man has ever had. On the day of reckoning, you will not be asked to present your credentials. The devastation will be indiscriminate.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Men, Ideas

  7 Copy quote

• Could anyone in his right mind speak seriously of any limited nuclear war? It should be quite clear that the aggressor's actions will instantly and inevitably trigger a devastating counterstroke by the other side. None but completely irresponsible people could maintain that a nuclear war may be made to follow rules adopted beforehand, with nuclear missiles exploding in a "gentlemanly manner" over strictly designated targets and sparing the population.

  Dmitriy Ustinov

  War, People, Mind

  "Russian Roulette : The Superpower Game" by Arthur M. Cox, (p. 10), 1982.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Direct aggression against Cuba would mean nuclear war. The Americans speak about such aggression as if they did not know or did not want to accept this fact. I have no doubt they would lose such a war.

  Che Guevara

  War, Mean, Doubt

  14 Copy quote

• It should make people nervous when non-transparent regimes, that have announced that they've got nuclear warheads, fire missiles. This is not the way you conduct business in the world. This is not the way that peaceful nations conduct their affairs.

  George W. Bush

  Fire, People, Peaceful

  "Weather improving for N. Korea missile test, sources say" by Barbara Starr, www.cnn.com. June 23, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs.

  Charles Bass

  Design, Chinese, Spy

  8 Copy quote

• In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.

  Herman Kahn

  War, Book, Effort

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.10, Lexington Books

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

  Alfonso Garcia Robles

  Powerful, War, Nuclear Disarmament

  57 Copy quote

• We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought, and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  War, Believe, Nuclear

  "Ties with Muslim world rich and strong: Vajpayee". Interview with Amir Taheri, www.arabnews.com. September 5, 2009.

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• Environmental scientists also show us clearly that from the environmental and ecological points of view that nuclear war is not preventable. The only way to get rid of this danger is to abolish all nuclear weapons

  Tadatoshi Akiba

  War, Views, Environmental

  4 Copy quote

• The last major childhood disease remains and it's the worst of them all: nuclear war.

  Beverly Sills

  War, Childhood, Nuclear

  4 Copy quote

• As long as the two nuclear superpowers maintain arsenals in the tens of thousands of nuclear warheads, there is no way they can with any consistency urge that other nations not be allowed to acquire theses weapons.

  Stansfield Turner

  Two, Long, Consistency

  4 Copy quote

• ...nuclear threats and nuclear weapons are the last argument of weak, stressed and irresponsible politicians. People must act very quicky to stop the movement to nuclear war.

  Alla Yaroshinskaya

  War, People, Stressed

  5 Copy quote

• And there are other dangers potentially more dangerous than even nuclear war. There is AIDS. There is terrorism. There are drugs and more to the point the darkness of our time that makes people seek escape in drugs. There is the slow poisoning of what we call "the environment" of all things as if with that absurdly antiseptic phrase we can conceal from ourselves that what we are really poisoning is home, is here, is us.

  Frederick Buechner

  War, Home, People

  4 Copy quote

• I firmly believe that nuclear war is absolutely impossible. I don't think anyone in the world wants a nuclear war - not even the Russians.

  Frank Sinatra

  War, Believe, Thinking

  Interview with Joe Hyams, reprints.longform.org. February 1963.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nuclear war would really set back cable.

  Ted Turner

  Funny, War, Nuclear

  4 Copy quote

• ...nuclear warfare is not necessary to cause a breakdown of our society. You take a large city like Los Angeles, New York, Chicago-their water supply comes from hundreds of miles away and any interruption of that, or food, or power for any period of time, you're going to have riots in the streets. Our society is so fragile, so dependent on the interworking of things to provide us with goods and services, that you don't need nuclear warfare to fragment us anymore than the Romans needed it to cause their eventual downfall.

  Gene Roddenberry

  New York, Cities, Water

  32 Copy quote

• If Obama commits thermonuclear war, I won't have to worry about November and neither will you.

  Kesha Rogers

  War, Worry, November

  "Kesha Rogers, Texas Democrat And Anti-Obama Nominee, Disavowed By Party Members". Interview with Gene Demby, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In many places around the world, all over the U.S. and Europe there are active nuclear power plants. And for many years during the Cold War the threat of nuclear war was a permanent fear. There's always the concern that human kind is biting off more than they can chew in harnessing nuclear power.

  Oren Peli

  War, Years, Europe

  "‘Chernobyl Diaries’ & ‘Paranormal Activity’ Writer/Producer Oren Peli". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. May 25, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source