Sting Quotes

The truth emerging from this scattered picture of nuclear proliferation is simple: there is a stronger chance of a nuclear bomb being used now than at almost any point in the Cold War.

I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up.

Today, the danger of some sort of a nuclear catastrophe is greater than it was during the Cold War, and most people are blissfully unaware of this danger.

The atomic bomb is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless world.

In the shadow of the atomic bomb it has become even more apparent that all men are, indeed, brothers.

Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear threat.

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

That is potentially putting us all in the target hairs now is the reactivation of a new nuclear arms race. This arms race and this cold war is potentially hotter than it's been at any time in my lifetime.

We have built something [a nuclear stockpile] bigger than we can drive.

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

If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent - that's good enough.

It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.

The atomic bomb means the end of world war.

A nuclear weapon is not just a football that you can use at will.

There is only one thing worse than one nation having the atomic bomb -- that's two nations having it.

Any possession of nuclear weapons in the Middle East is a danger.

Now that the threat against which we need nuclear weapons is no longer clear, all that is clear is the threat of the nuclear weapons themselves—to the environment and the human race.

Russia will likely have the atomic bomb by mid-1953.

Atomic weapons with what we know today can be cheap… The cost will not break the bank of anyone who wants them….

I remember when John Cameron Swayze over the television told me personally that the Russians now had the atomic bomb; then I knew that we were goners.

People tend to forget about nuclear weapons. We think they are going to remain in silos for the rest of time. As long as they exist, they are going to be used.

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.

Some of the most dramatic consequences of the Kosovo war are linked to the resumption of the arms race and the suicidal political and economic policies of countries like India and Pakistan where tons of money are currently being spent on atomic weaponry. This is abhorrent!

The single greatest problem the world has is nuclear armament, nuclear weapons, not global warming.

Nuclear weaponry, of course, would be the be-all, end-all of just too many people in too many parts of our planet.