Nuclear War Quotes - Page 4

• Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  War, Ghouls, Secret

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• The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

  Walter Goodman

  War, Ideas, Nuclear

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• One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  War, Thinking, Hands

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• It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows.

  Joe Kinnear

  Sports, War, Arrows

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• We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.

  Kevin Costner

  War, Stupid, Mean

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• Donald Trump believes that the world will be safer if more nations have nuclear weapons. 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, Japan

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We're talking about nuclear war with North Korea. We're talking about Russia. Does it feel like the world has shifted? Are we all just in Donald Trump's reality show now?

  James R. Clapper

  War, Reality, World

  Source: www.politico.com

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• [British television series] Hammer House of Horror. I used to really enjoy these one-off stories where often there would be an incredibly cruel twist. A good example is the episode with Burgess Meredith and there's a nuclear war and he drops his glasses. To this day, you can show that to anyone and they'll go "Bwrrrrrrrr!" You know, sort of wander away shuddering.

  Charlie Brooker

  War, Glasses, House

  "The Man Behind Netflix’s “Black Mirror” Is Maybe a Little Too Good at Predicting the Future". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2016.

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• I can't understand why anyone would want nuclear warheads. If you shoot them off, it's not like you can take over that country - all you do is kill millions of people.

  Rick Yune

  Country, People, Nuclear

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Growing Up, War

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example - must have realized a nuclear war would be a hard thing to clean up after.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, War, Humorous

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.174, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.

  Barry Commoner

  War, Vision, Facts

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.

  J. G. Ballard

  Art, War, Keys

  "Age of unreason". Interview with Jeannette Baxter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2004.

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• The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

  Larry Niven

  War, Years, Cold

  Larry Niven (2010). “Stars and Gods”, p.363, Macmillan

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• We have been led to believe that we have come a long way toward world nuclear disarmament. But that is not the case. Our government is not doing all that it could. We must urge our leaders to fulfill the obligations of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The United States must assume world leadership to end once and for all the threat of nuclear war. It is our moral responsibility.

  Harrison Ford

  War, Believe, Responsibility

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• The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.

  Charles Bass

  Government, Design, United States

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• ...but highly placed sources within the Kennedy Administration disagreed: "[T]he assumption that the strategic nuclear balance mattered in any way was wrong... As far as I am concerned, it made no difference... If my memory serves me correctly, we had some five thousand strategic nuclear warheads as against t heir three hundred. Can anyone seriously tell me that their having three hundred and forty would have made any difference? The military balance wasn't changed. I didn't believe it then, and I don't believe it now..."

  Robert McNamara

  Memories, Military, Believe

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• I don't wanna die in a nuclear war, I want to sail away to a distant shore, and make like an apeman.

  Ray Davies

  Peace, War, Special

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• The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995, the Clinton Administration failed to take steps immediately to improve security.

  Charles Bass

  Government, Design, Nuclear

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• John F. Kennedy:] Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring down an adversary to the choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.

  Elie Abel

  War, Choices, Nuclear

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• The consensus is that climate change ranks along with nuclear warfare as the top two risks facing human civilization.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Civilization, Two, Risk

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisk". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• As I came through medical school, it was very exciting because physicians were reaching out to each other, between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and sort of helping to build bridges among, you know, people, people who were not allowing our government to pit us against each other and to actually take us to the brink of nuclear war. And Physicians for Social Responsibility wound up getting a Peace Prize, a Nobel Peace Prize, which they shared with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.

  Jill Stein

  War, School, Responsibility

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• This whole notion that the robot has to declare nuclear war is one part of the discussion, but it may not be reality. Reality is, maybe it can empathize to a far greater degree than we can and experience a way wider range of emotions. So, why not have a robot that can do that?

  Neill Blomkamp

  War, Reality, Degrees

  Source: collider.com

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• Most music culture these days runs on systems and networks devised to deal with the aftermath of thermonuclear war. Music culture has a habit of using these moods and machines in creative, unintended ways.

  Kode9

  Running, War, Creative

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• As difficult as it is to eliminate the risk of nuclear warfare, it requires fewer changes to the global economy than does averting or reversing climate change.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Risk, Climate, Doe

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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