Bombs Quote by Dave Barry

Growing up during the Cold War, I remember the seemingly imminent threat of nuclear war. In primary school we were taught to 'duck-and-cover' for…

— Mike Quigley

Just as we can no longer pretend that ducking under wooden desks will keep us safe from a nuclear bomb, we must no longer…

— Mike Quigley

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

— John le Carre

The entire United States is within range of our nuclear weapons, and a nuclear button is always on my desk. This is reality, not…

— Kim Jong-un

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”

— John le Carré

Because my parents were American missionaries who sent me to public schools in rural Japan, I had to confront Hiroshima as a child. I…

— Linda Hoaglund

That's our nuclear weapons strategy [going to frighten people], as of the early post-Cold War years. And I think this is a real failure…

— Noam Chomsky

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped…

— Norman MacCaig

In my seven years as Secretary, we came within a hair's breadth of war with the Soviet Union on three different occasions! Twenty-four hours…

— Robert McNamara

I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs…

— Don DeLillo

European peace movement felt that the deployment of these missiles on European soil, on German soil would be a very great danger towards the…

— Petra Kelly

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so…

— John Hersey