Now look boys. I ain’t much of a ham at makin’ speeches. But I got a pretty fair idea that somethin’ doggoned important’s going on back there. And I got a fair idea of the kind of personal emotions that some of you fellas may be thinkin’. Heck, I reckon you wouldn’t even be human […]
Nuclear Quotes
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 […]
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.
There are also enough rocks on Earth to kill the world’s population several times over. (explaining why it’s necessary to have more than enough nukes) Lt.
Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He’ll come in handy if you run out of food.
The politicians and the military leaders had their own ideas about the bomb; moral scruples hardly figured in them. More important was to demonstrate to the world – and particularly to the Soviet Union – the newly acquired might of the United States.
The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
