Bombs Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

“As is now generally admitted, a Soviet bomb would not have been achieved for several years more but for the success of Soviet espionage…

— Robert Conquest

I think if terrorists had nuclear materials and found people to put a bomb together - both of which are possible - we would…

— Sam Nunn

Surely the right course is to test the Russians, not the bombs.

— Hugh Gaitskell

“From 1957 through 1961, Khrushchev openly, repeatedly, and bloodcurdlingly threatened the West with nuclear annihilation. Soviet missile capabilities were so far superior to those…

— John Lewis Gaddis

“On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon the world had ever known. Called the Tsar Bomba, the…

— Annie Jacobsen

Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.

— Arundhati Roy

“Don’t call these the “wonders of Soviet heroism" when you write about it. Those wonders really did exist. But first there had to be…

— Svetlana Alexievich

Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no…

— Edward Teller

Native annalists may look sadly back from the future on that period when we had the atomic bomb and the Russians didn't. Or when…

— Curtis LeMay

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to…

— Kary Mullis

With the new weapons like the atom bomb, Russia would have it, too, and use it first. It is a very difficult world. But…

— Karl Donitz

To most ... of us, Russia was as mysterious and remote as the other side of the moon and not much more productive when…

— Herbert York