Nuclear Quotes

There’s only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons – use ’em. All of ’em. Then there won’t be anyone left to build more.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

The hydrogen bomb is not the greatest danger of our time. After all, the most it could do would be to transfer vast numbers of human beings from this world to another and more vital one into which they would some day go anyway. (Archbishop of Canterbury, 1954)

I would sever Korea from Manchuria by laying a field of radioactive wastes – the by products of atomic manufacture – across all major lines of enemy supply. Once the enemy supplies are exhausted, American reinforcements and Chinese Nationalists will make simultaneous amphibious and airborne landings at the upper end of both coasts of North […]

If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commercial insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I’m not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.

In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.

America is the only country in the world that’s still in the business of making bombs that can end the world and TV shows that make it seem like a good idea.

The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us.

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.