Nuclear war Quote by Daniel Ellsberg

The U.S. had about 10,000 nuclear warheads. It is estimated that the U.S. is heading towards having 6,000 nuclear warheads in the year 2012.

— John Burroughs

[Nuclear weapons] now I think I mentioned around 27,000 and during the Cold War the total global arsenal was on the order of 70,000.

— John Burroughs

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

The Obama administration has revealed the size of America's nuclear arsenal. We have 1,000 warheads aimed at China, 1,000 aimed at Russia, and the…

— Jay Leno

“How many nuclear missiles would have to be launched at the United States to turn it into a complete wasteland? —Anonymous”

— Randall Munroe

When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some…

— Joseph Rotblat

“From 1957 through 1961, Khrushchev openly, repeatedly, and bloodcurdlingly threatened the West with nuclear annihilation. Soviet missile capabilities were so far superior to those…

— John Lewis Gaddis

As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with…

— George Wald

But finding these 16 warheads just raises a basic question: Where are the other 29,984? Because that is how many empty chemical warheads the…

— Richard Armitage

You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by…

— Carl Sagan

The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that's all…

— Carl Sagan

As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died…

— Joseph Rotblat