"A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us."
Nuclear Missiles quotes
12 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us."
"We believe in taking down the barriers, but we also believe in the most energetic reconciliation among peoples by getting them to know each other, talk each other's languages, understand each other's fears and beliefs, getting to know each other physically, philosophically and spiritually. It is much harder to kill your near neighbor than the thousands of unknown and hostile aliens at the other end of a nuclear missile. We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles..."
"A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. The only value in our two nations possessing nuclear weapons is to make sure they will never be used. But then would it not be better to do away with them entirely?"
"It never occurred to me that anyone would name a nuclear missile "Peacekeeper". It never occurred to me that thousands of people would be killed in the name of "peace-keeping"."
"It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States."
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