There will be no nuclear war. There’s too much real estate involved.
Nuclear Quotes
Nuclear bonus effects: Desirable damage or casualties produced by the effects from friendly nuclear weapons that cannot be accurately calculated in targeting as the uncertainties involved preclude depending on them for a militarily significant result.
Well, boys, I reckon this is it. Nuclear (pronounced ‘nookular’) combat, toe-to-toe with the Rooskies.
Now look boys. I ain’t much of a ham at makin’ speeches. But I got a pretty fair idea that somethin’ doggoned important’s going on back there. And I got a fair idea of the kind of personal emotions that some of you fellas may be thinkin’. Heck, I reckon you wouldn’t even be human […]
If we were to immediately launch an all-out and coordinated attack on all their airfields and missile bases we’d stand a damn good chance of catchin ’em with their pants down. Hell, we got five to one missile superiority as it is. We could easily assign three missiles to every target and still have a […]
Mr. President, we are rapidly approaching a moment of truth… Now, truth is not always a pleasant thing, but it is necessary now to make a choice, to choose between two admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless, distinguishable post-war environments. One where you got 20 million people killed, and the other where you got 150 million people […]
The lighting effects beggar description. The whole country was lighted by a searing light with the intensity many times that of the midday sun. It was golden, purple, violet, gray, and blue. It lighted every peak, crevasse and ridge of the near-by mountain range with a clarity and beauty that cannot be described but must […]
There’s only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons – use ’em. All of ’em. Then there won’t be anyone left to build more.
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
The hydrogen bomb is not the greatest danger of our time. After all, the most it could do would be to transfer vast numbers of human beings from this world to another and more vital one into which they would some day go anyway. (Archbishop of Canterbury, 1954)
