Air force Quote by Lonnie Johnson

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was…

— Andrei Sakharov

My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear weapons.

— James Mercer

My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a homemaker, and…

— Robert Englund

I was a graduate student in 1984 when President Ronald Reagan called for the construction of a new space station. I knew then that…

— Leroy Chiao

And So, I Was Not A Military Test Pilot, But As Soon As NASA Expressed An Interest In Flying Scientists & People Who Were…

— Story Musgrave

My father was an air officer in the Second World War. My brother was a marine in Vietnam. When I was given this opportunity,…

— Valerie Plame

We were able and we had a plan to launch nuclear test in 1984, but then President General Zia had opposed the move.

— Abdul Qadeer Khan

When I was commissioned in the Air Force, I was committed to the institution for a career.

— James Clapper

Before I became President, in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, there had been fairly dramatic, and I think excessive, reductions in the capability…

— Jimmy Carter

In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an…

— Annie Jacobsen

Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.

— Valerie Plame

One of the greatest concerns that I had when I became President was the vast array of nuclear weapons in the arsenals of the…

— Jimmy Carter