Capitulation Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr

Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice and righteousness.…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of a worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes…

— John F. Kennedy

The United States will rightfully go on deploring human rights excesses in the Soviet Union. And it is hardly likely Americans will one day…

— Antony Blinken

We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack?

— Peter Sellers

To coexist with communism on the same planet is impossible. Either it will spread, cancer-like, to destroy mankind, or else mankind will have to…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.

— Lech Walesa

[Nuclear war]... may not be desirable.

— Edwin Meese

Some amount of fear of nuclear weapons is necessary for nuclear deterrence to work.

— Michael Shellenberger

Nuclear weapons will not be gotten rid of until the United States confronts the magnitude of the horror, the tragedy, and the long-term suffering…

— Bernard Lown

We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.

— George Wald

The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.

— Neil Sheehan