Able Quote by Dmitriy Ustinov

Any incident could instantly blow up. Both sides [USA and Russia] are modernizing and increasing their military systems, including nuclear systems.

— Noam Chomsky

What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to…

— Ronald Reagan

Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to American prestige.…

— Albert Einstein

American strategic [nuclear] forces do not exist solely for the purpose of deterring a Soviet nuclear threat or attack against the U.S. itself. Instead,…

— Colin S. Gray

“The USA and the Soviet Union each had the ability to annihilate the other. Therefore- in theory at least-neither of these growling superpowers would…

— Mal Peet

The Soviet Union's propaganda clearly wishes to use public opinion in this country to get the West to reduce its own arms while doing…

— James Callaghan

Could anyone in his right mind speak seriously of any limited nuclear war? It should be quite clear that the aggressor's actions will instantly…

— Dmitriy Ustinov

Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Nuclear weapons will not be gotten rid of until the United States confronts the magnitude of the horror, the tragedy, and the long-term suffering…

— Bernard Lown

Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian - U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that.

— Charles Horner

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

Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons. Those who…

— Noam Chomsky