Nuclear War Quotes

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The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

There is no such thing as a survivable or local nuclear war.

It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.

Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved by famine, riots, insurrection and war.

Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.

We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought, and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.

Raul, man, he's like a Twinkie. He would survive a nuclear war.

Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.

Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists.

In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.

Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.

Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.

Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.

The entire world will be in nuclear war, and only the Swiss will be going, 'what's that noise?'

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

This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

Some of the American military obviously were thinking in terms of fighting a nuclear war. I was opposed to that.

Nuclear war can ruin your whole compile.

It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows.

The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an investigation of the governing physics.

Nuclear war would mean abolition of most comforts, and disruption of normal routines, for children and adults alike.

I think if journalists were responsible for international policy we'd have a nuclear war every week.

Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war.

In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace requires that all ... strive for a progressive and concerted nuclear disarmament.

The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.

I firmly believe that nuclear war is absolutely impossible. I don't think anyone in the world wants a nuclear war - not even the Russians.

...nuclear threats and nuclear weapons are the last argument of weak, stressed and irresponsible politicians. People must act very quicky to stop the movement to nuclear war.

There will never be a nuclear war; there's too much real estate involved.

Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.

We're talking about nuclear war with North Korea. We're talking about Russia. Does it feel like the world has shifted? Are we all just in Donald Trump's reality show now?

The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.

We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.

I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example - must have realized a nuclear war would be a hard thing to clean up after.

I don't wanna die in a nuclear war, I want to sail away to a distant shore, and make like an apeman.

One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.

If you asked me to name the three scariest threats facing the human race, I would give the same answer that most people would: nuclear war, global warming and Windows.

Nuclear war would really set back cable.

I think architectural appreciation would be a minor occupation after a nuclear war. People would just be happy to have something to eat.

Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we're seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.

If there was a war, a big war, a major war on the planet, it would be a nuclear war, and it would destroy all life, human and subhuman, on planet earth.

The last major childhood disease remains and it's the worst of them all: nuclear war.

Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse

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

With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.

[Donald Trump] even said, well, you know, if there were nuclear war in East Asia, well, you know, that's fine have a good time, folks.