American politics Quote by David Talbot

When nuclear weapons were an elite club of five relatively sane world powers, the Left was convinced the planet was about to go ka-boom…

— Mark Steyn

“Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.”

— David Foster Wallace

“They were undoubtedbly sincere in subscribing to the argument that nuclear weapons were a reserve held for one purpose: defense of humankind should a…

— Frank Herbert

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

“Nuclear Weapons aren't much of a threat, today; compared to Families of the world, going Nuclear.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

“You know, there was a time at the beginning of the 50's when this nuclear threat hung over the world, but the attitude of…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

— Walter Goodman

“Nuclear is clear so near to fear and tear.”

— Toba Beta

“They preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the Earth.…

— Ronald Reagan

“Plutonium is the darling and the demon of the nuclear age.”

— Kristen Iversen

Since 1989, public alarm at the prospect of atomic Armageddon has quietened, but the number of nuclear-armed states has increased, arsenals are being modernized,…

— Peter Maurer

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause…

— Ronald Reagan