Nuclear power Quote by Mal Peet

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

The aggressor too should know that the preemptive use of nuclear weapons would not insure victory. With modern detection systems and the combat readiness…

— Dmitriy Ustinov

As we learned during the Cold War, the presence of massive nuclear arsenals does not stop great powers from worrying about conventional force balances…

— John Mearsheimer

America is the strongest empire ever, with the largest military. We spend ten times what the Russians do. And they have equal nuclear ability…

— Oliver Stone

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 am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.

— Nicholas Royle

Any incident could instantly blow up. Both sides [USA and Russia] are modernizing and increasing their military systems, including nuclear systems.

— Noam Chomsky

Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,'

— Josef Joffe

It is absolutely important that we have a unified alliance and that we explain to the Russians that you cannot be a 21st-century superpower,…

— Barack Obama

Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama…

— Barbara Olson

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.

— Ken Follett

It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union, who…

— George Friedman