Headings Quote by John Burroughs

When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some…

— Joseph Rotblat

It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the Soviet's three hundred.

— Robert McNamara

The Obama administration has revealed the size of America's nuclear arsenal. We have 1,000 warheads aimed at China, 1,000 aimed at Russia, and the…

— Jay Leno

“York posed the question, how many nuclear weapons are needed to deter an adversary rational enough to be deterred? Concurring with Bundy’s judgment—as who…

— Daniel Ellsberg

Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them…

— Joseph Rotblat

There are nine countries in the world that have nuclear weapons. There are about 27,000 nuclear weapons total on the planet. The countries that…

— John Burroughs

[Nuclear weapons] now I think I mentioned around 27,000 and during the Cold War the total global arsenal was on the order of 70,000.

— John Burroughs

As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with…

— George Wald

We are plunging headlong into a cold war, and we have 2,000 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert.

— Jill Stein

The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that's all…

— Carl Sagan

We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.

— John Spratt

You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by…

— Carl Sagan