Cold war Quote by John Mearsheimer

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

The best way for any state to deter a rival from using its nuclear arsenal for political gain is to have its own nuclear…

— John Mearsheimer

Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt…

— C. Robert Kehler

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

The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis,…

— Herman Kahn

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

— John Mearsheimer

I don't worry about superpower confrontation. You know, I lived through the Cold War days, and where everybody was worried about a Soviet Union…

— George H. W. Bush

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

I believe that when we overdo our military aggressiveness, what it does it actually weakens our national defense. I mean, we stood up to…

— Ron Paul

“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

Nuclear proliferation has never entirely been brought under control, and the arsenals of nuclear powers contain bombs far more powerful than those dropped on…

— Margaret MacMillan

“Nuclear deterrence will remain a vital aspect of security. or Nuclear deterrence will have a smaller role in future security. Sources are split in…

— Sam J. Tangredi