Peace Quote by Gregory Benford

“Eisenhower was certain any war with the Soviet Union would become a nuclear war, and any nuclear war would escalate into a full, all-out…

— Garrett M. Graff

“The Nobel Peace Prize to end all peace prizes should have been given to Robert Oppenheimer and his fellow architects of the atomic bomb.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Teller contended, not implausibly, that hydrogen bombs keep the peace, or at least prevent thermonuclear war, because the consequences of warfare between nuclear powers…

— Carl Sagan

“From 1957 through 1961, Khrushchev openly, repeatedly, and bloodcurdlingly threatened the West with nuclear annihilation. Soviet missile capabilities were so far superior to those…

— John Lewis Gaddis

“[Andrei Sakharov] won his Nobel in 1975 for demanding a halt to the testing of nuclear weapons. He, of course, had already tested his.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon the world had ever known. Called the Tsar Bomba, the…

— Annie Jacobsen

Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by…

— Steven Pinker

If you read history, right, if you read [Mikhail] Gorbachev's memoirs, Gorbachev memoirs said the key thing in winning the Cold War was our…

— Rudy Giuliani

Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no…

— Edward Teller

“I do not know the substance of the considerations and recommendations which Dr. Szilárd proposes to submit to you,” Einstein wrote. “The terms of…

— Walter Isaacson

If not for me, the H-bomb would have been developed in Russia first. In the U.S., we'd now be speaking Russian.

— Edward Teller

“Scientists expected that the Super, a fusion or "thermonuclear" weapon, would be an awesomely destructive horror that could unleash the equivalent of several million…

— James T. Patterson