Drills Quote by Dolph Lundgren

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to…

— Kary Mullis

As a little kid in the late 1960s, I was afraid of the world. Even if I didn't get caught in the draft that…

— Andrew Solomon

My childhood was marked by the great fear of nuclear holocaust. We practiced our Civil Defense Drills, lining up in hallways, curled to the…

— Julianna Baggott

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

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had…

— Jimmy Carter

I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.

— Jack Scalia

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots of bombs…

— Alice Walker

I myself was terrified during the Second World War. The war started when I was six, and I was so sure that we were…

— Patricia Reilly Giff

Russia has had very aggressive military exercises. They've practiced mock nuclear attacks on Warsaw. Russian bombers practiced attacking strategic military targets in Sweden. The…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

I don't know about scared, but 'Chernobyl' definitely made me deeply uncomfortable. Almost addictively uncomfortable: don't know what that says about me. But I…

— Alexander Armstrong

The nightmare of the Cold War was nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person. I don't want to live through that nightmare.

— Rudy Giuliani

My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I…

— Daniel Ellsberg