Pavel Grachev Quotes

To be a major power, a country must have nuclear weapons.

You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!

If an SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) system were to keep out ninety percent of incoming nuclear missiles, it would be a ninety percent success and most Americans would be dead.

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 country that has a nuclear bomb is a super power.

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

I think we have to get rid of nuclear weapons. The idea that somehow by having nuclear weapons you make the world a safer place is essentially insane.

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

We will use nuclear weapons whenever it serves our vital interests.

I built a nuclear option to get peace, not to have bombs. Our enemies learned that they could not destroy us.

Dwight Eisenhower… supported the nuclearization of the military and the militarization of nuclear weapons as a cost saving way of deterring the Soviets. Under Eisenhower, custody or nuclear weapons shifted from the civilian Atomic Energy Commission to the military.

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.

The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others.

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

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

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack.

Nut With A Nuke

The atomic issue was a natural path into political issues.

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