If we were to immediately launch an all-out and coordinated attack on all their airfields and missile bases we’d stand a damn good chance of catchin ’em with their pants down. Hell, we got five to one missile superiority as it is. We could easily assign three missiles to every target and still have a […]
Nuclear Quotes
Mr. President, we are rapidly approaching a moment of truth… Now, truth is not always a pleasant thing, but it is necessary now to make a choice, to choose between two admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless, distinguishable post-war environments. One where you got 20 million people killed, and the other where you got 150 million people […]
Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy electrical energy in their homes too cheap to meter.
Inspiration for a hydrogen bomb came from the sun and the stars.
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom.
If the militarily most powerful – and least threatened – states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.
If there are enough shovels to go around, everybody’s going to make it… You’ve got to be in a hole… the dirt (covering the hole) really is the thing that protects you from the blast as well as the radiation, if there’s radiation. It protects you from the heat. You know, dirt is just great […]
