This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack. — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack. — George Wald Copy Share Image
As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack. Now, however, an… — Alan Cranston Copy Share Image
The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
“attack. “One of the awkward questions we faced was whether to reconstitute Congress after a nuclear attack,” a participant recalled years later.… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear… — George Wald Copy Share Image
[With] military threats, you can see them actually, you can imagine it. People don't think about it enough. But if you think… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Sooner or later there will be a nuclear 9/11 [by Islamic terrorists] in an American city or that of a US ally...… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
As a little kid in the late 1960s, I was afraid of the world. Even if I didn't get caught in the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If you ask which of the scenarios I think is most dangerous, though, I will give a different answer. In that form… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
“There were unofficial discussions at the time about what would have happened if, heaven forbid, that nuclear warhead had exploded on American… — Sakyo Komatsu Copy Share Image
“Throughout the Cold War such priorities reflected a command environment in which —it was regarded as overwhelmingly more important to assure a… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
At 2:26 AM on 3 June 1980, Colonel William Odom of the Strategic Air Command alerted National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski that… — Stansfield Turner Copy Share Image