Jack Scalia Quotes

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

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

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

In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.

Limiting nuclear war is like limiting the mission of a match thrown in a keg of gunpowder.

A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.

I have a little hope that the nuclear holocaust doesn't happen.

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

Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological nation plans for it.

I would not recommend the use of any atomic weapon, no matter how small, when both sides have the power to destroy the world.

Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident, miscalculation or madness.

The lesson of history is when a war starts every nation will ultimately use whatever weapon it has available. ... Therefore, we must expect that if another war — a serious war — breaks out, we will use nuclear energy in some form.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

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

To have the ability to destroy all and not to do it was one of the hard tests humanity passed - but only just - in the middle of the twentieth century.

My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.

One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

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

Growing up during the Cold War, I remember the seemingly imminent threat of nuclear war. In primary school we were taught to 'duck-and-cover' for protection. But even as children hiding under wooden desks, we recognized the inadequacies of this strategy.

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.

The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble.

I could not conceive of any President engaging in all-out nuclear war unless we were in danger of all-out devastation ourselves.

Blow them [the Russians] off the face of the earth, quick, before they do the same to us. We haven't much time.