Built Quote by Phil Plait

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 has always been enough fossil fuels to power human civilization for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, and nuclear energy is effectively infinite.

— Michael Shellenberger

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

— Jill Stein

“How many nuclear missiles would have to be launched at the United States to turn it into a complete wasteland? —Anonymous”

— Randall Munroe

Nuclear weapons present us with a paradox: We spend billions of dollars building and maintaining them in the hope that we never have to…

— Dianne Feinstein

“Suppose we would be able to build 200 Gigawatt worth of nuclear reactors each year or a total expected generation of roughly 1.580 TWh,…

— Mathijs Beckers

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

Nuclear is a much-underutilized asset in the arsenal of American energy.

— Byron Donalds

In my seven years as Secretary, we came within a hair's breadth of war with the Soviet Union on three different occasions! Twenty-four hours…

— Robert McNamara

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

— Noam Chomsky

I happened to read recently a remark by the American nuclear physicist W. Davidson, who noted that the explosion of one hydrogen bomb releases…

— Nikita Khrushchev

The use of a mere dozen nuclear weapons ... would be a human catastrophe without parallel. ... Because so few weapons can kill so…

— Jonathan Schell