Allies Quote by David Krieger

There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would…

— Irwin Redlener

We don't talk about that at all as a country. I think that most people assume that there's nothing they could do if a…

— Amanda Ripley

A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.

— John Bruton

So the idea about how detonation of a nuclear weapon might happen vary, you know - some people are especially concerned about terrorists getting…

— John Burroughs

“human gene editing would almost assuredly never have the same catastrophic consequences as the detonation of a nuclear weapon”

— Jennifer A. Doudna

Until the last nuclear weapon is eliminated, more must also be done to reduce the risk of a detonation. Nuclear-armed states should reduce the…

— Peter Maurer

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

At 2:26 AM on 3 June 1980, Colonel William Odom of the Strategic Air Command alerted National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski that the US…

— Stansfield Turner

If you ask which of the scenarios I think is most dangerous, though, I will give a different answer. In that form of the…

— John L. Casti

“There were unofficial discussions at the time about what would have happened if, heaven forbid, that nuclear warhead had exploded on American soil. There…

— Sakyo Komatsu

“Throughout the Cold War such priorities reflected a command environment in which —it was regarded as overwhelmingly more important to assure a Go response…

— Daniel Ellsberg

This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack.

— Joseph Rotblat