What is the only provocation that could bring about the use of nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the priority target for nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the only established defense against nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. How do we prevent the use of nuclear weapons? By threatening to use nuclear weapons. And we can’t get rid of nuclear weapons, because of nuclear weapons. —Martin Amis More about this quote Tags: war nuclear weapons insanity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
J. Robert Oppenheimer, witnessing the first test of a nuclear weapon, confessed to tasting sin. But he and all his colleagues knew from the beginning what lay waiting at the end of the project. And which was the stronger flavor, the sin, or the satisfaction of having stolen fire from the gods? —Theodore Roszak More about this quote Tags: nuclear weapons gods sin Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Imagine, a room, awash in gasoline. And there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has 9,000 matches. The other has 7,000 matches. Each of them is concerned about who’s ahead, who’s stronger. Well, that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. —Carl Sagan More about this quote Tags: war history nuclear weapons USA tragedy Soviet Union Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You know what uranium is, right? It's this thing called nuclear weapons. And other things. Like lots of things are done with uranium. Including some bad things. —Donald Trump More about this quote Tags: nuclear weapons uranium Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email