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It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war. — Margaret Thatcher

The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity. — Dr. John

Don't say you're easy on me. You're about as easy as a nuclear war. — Duran Duran

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

If there is a solar flare or a nuclear war, a thousand cans of pickled turnips aren't going to save you. — Sarah Lotz

[Nuclear war] ... may not be desirable. — Edwin Meese

I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war. — Jack Scalia

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

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

The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power. — Anthony Mason

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

She looks like she's holding in a dictionary of bad words or a nuclear war. — Jandy Nelson

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. — Haruki Murakami

Washington's adventuristic policy, whipping up international tension to the utmost, is pushing mankind towards nuclear catastrophe. — Konstantin Chernenko

Nuclear war can ruin your whole compile. — Karl Lehenbauer

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling. — Walter Goodman

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

I would eat fruitcake if there'd been a nuclear war and I'd run out of canned goods. — Deb Caletti

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

In nuclear war all men are cremated equal. — Dexter Gordon

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. — Noam Chomsky

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

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

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war. — Paul Wolfowitz

My short-term vision is the abolition of nuclear weapons. My long-term vision is the abolition of war. — Joseph Rotblat

Very few people in the USA realize that a nuclear war was waged with nature in the southwest by their own military. — Steven Magee

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

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. — Nikita Khrushchev

It doesn't matter, whether it is an x, y or z country, every penny spends for nuclear weapons strengthen the hands of the evil force. — Amit Ray

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

In the nuclear age, superpowers make war like porcupines make love - carefully. — Robert F. Kennedy

The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war. — Edward Abbey

Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely. — Stanislaw Lem

If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years. — Ralph Nader

We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war. — Bernard Kouchner

But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows? — Harry S. Truman

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five. — Carl Sagan

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. — Ronald Reagan

As we speak, Iran has rolled back its nuclear program, shipped out its uranium stockpile, and the world has avoided another war. — Barack Obama

With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears. — Henry A. Kissinger

This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization. — Joseph Rotblat

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

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

The lesson of the Cold War is that against nuclear weapons, only nuclear weapons can hold the peace. — Chung Mong-joon

The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons. — Chung Mong-joon

We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents. — Mohamed ElBaradei

In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself. — Denzel Washington

another billion deaths in the months that followed from mass starvation - from a mere 1.5-megaton regional nuclear war. — Richard Rhodes

We need to be fit and ready for anything that might come our way. — Aaron B. Powell

I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry. — Fred Hoyle

There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one. — Joseph Rotblat

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

Trying to win a power struggle is like trying to win a nuclear war. You may achieve your goal, but not without catastrophic casualties on both sides. — Jamie Raser

It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided. — Noam Chomsky

We believe US threats of an approaching World War III and their use of Iran's nuclear issue as an excuse is another form of American insanity. — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

The nightmare of the Cold War was nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person. I don't want to live through that nightmare. — Rudy Giuliani

The nuclear weapons on board just one of our Trident submarines contain eight times the firepower expended in all of World War II. — John Allen Paulos

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies. — Morrissey

The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World War II. — Naoto Kan

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

After the nuclear war, kids like them'll rule what's left. It'll be hell. — David Mitchell

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

From 1965 to 1973, more munitions fell on Cambodia than on all of World War II Japan, including the two nuclear bombs of August 1945. — Sophal Ear

To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war, — Benjamin Netanyahu

Nuclear war would really set back cable. — Ted Turner

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. — Frank Sinatra

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

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war. — William Odom

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

Prosperous suburbia was one of the end-states of history. Once achieved, only plague, flood, or nuclear war could threaten its grip. — J.G. Ballard

Sleep democratizes fear. The terror of a lost shoe or a missed train are as great here as those of guerrilla attack or nuclear war. — Julian Barnes

I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war. — Alastair Reynolds

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

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

PTSD will be the worlds greatest horror for those that survive an all out Nuclear War. — Stanley Victor Paskavich