Nuclear War Quotes
93 quotes by 74 authors
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There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
— Noam Chomsky
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The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an…
— Carl Sagan
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The entire world will be in nuclear war, and only the Swiss will be going, 'what's that noise?'
— Robin Williams
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Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes…
— Norman Thomas
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In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced an…
— Tadatoshi Akiba
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Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.
— Robert Downey, Jr.
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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…
— Harrison Ford
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The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.
— Nikita Khrushchev
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Submit an agreement providing for the peaceful absorbtion of a celestial races in such a manner that our culture would remain intact with guarantee that…
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be…
— Camille Paglia
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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…
— Rick Yune
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Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's…
— Nikita Khrushchev
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It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows.
— Joe Kinnear
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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.
— Walter Goodman
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There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by the end of…
— John F. Kennedy
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There's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat Yes, he has chemical and biological weapons. He's had those for a long time. But the…
— Wesley Clark
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Raul, man, he's like a Twinkie. He would survive a nuclear war.
— Ray Hudson
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Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved by…
— Robert McNamara
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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…
— Robert McNamara
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Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear…
— Charles Bass
Who Wrote These Nuclear War Quotes
74 authors contributed a total of 93 Nuclear War Quotes, led by these top contributors: