Fronts Quote by Ronald Reagan

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

Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt…

— C. Robert Kehler

The Soviet Union's propaganda clearly wishes to use public opinion in this country to get the West to reduce its own arms while doing…

— James Callaghan

There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend.…

— George Wald

The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.

— Lord Mountbatten

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

“By most military experts’ projections, Russia is a likely source of nuclear armaments for Jihadists.”

— John Price

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.

— Charles Bass

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

Although the U.S.-Soviet rivalry was global in scope, its center of gravity was the Iron Curtain in Europe, where both sides had massive armies…

— John Mearsheimer

Nuclear weapons are so destructive and ballistic missiles are so swift, that any substantially increased possibility of their use or any sudden change in…

— John F. Kennedy

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