Atomic bomb Quote by Curtis LeMay

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.

— Curtis LeMay

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to…

— Kary Mullis

To most ... of us, Russia was as mysterious and remote as the other side of the moon and not much more productive when…

— Herbert York

With the new weapons like the atom bomb, Russia would have it, too, and use it first. It is a very difficult world. But…

— Karl Donitz

America was good enough to make a small compact lighter weight nuclear weapon. The Russians still had these big clunky heavy ones, so they…

— Burt Rutan

I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example - must have…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“History's long rhythm of challenges and response, of solutions that breed new crises, is not to be interrupted. But the Cold War left one…

— Martin Walker

I think if terrorists had nuclear materials and found people to put a bomb together - both of which are possible - we would…

— Sam Nunn

The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of…

— Joseph Rotblat

Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands? No one knows. No one can…

— Edward Teller

It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the Soviet's three hundred.

— Robert McNamara

Russia is new in terms of nuclear. America is old.

— Donald Trump