American military Quote by Helmut Schmidt

If we hadn't had nuclear weapons, we would have had to have a much larger conventional army.

— John Mearsheimer

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

— Robert McNamara

I not only saw the possibility of nuclear war, I feared it very much. If they started a military conflagration, it would automatically lead…

— Stefan Heym

The no-first-use policy for nuclear weapons was a well thought out stand... We don't intend to reverse it.

— Rajnath Singh

We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

— Walter Goodman

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

The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.

— Lord Mountbatten

[Nuclear war]... may not be desirable.

— Edwin Meese

It's very difficult to convince other countries that they shouldn't pursue nuclear weapons programs if we ourselves are actively developing a component of a…

— Steven Weinberg

Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea…

— Max von Sydow

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