Ted Kennedy Quotes

Thank God for the bomb. Nuke ya, nuke ya.

I don't like the word nuclear exchange, it's like an exchange of wheat and so on. It's a horrible term and I always cross it out when I see it somewhere.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere.

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

I can't believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us. And I just think of what a sigh of relief would go up from everyone on this earth if someday-and this is what I have-my hope, way in the back of my head-is that if we start down the road to reduction, maybe one day in doing that, somebody will say, 'Why not all the way? Let's get rid of all these things'.

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

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.'

Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.

Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.

We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?

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

The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared.

Japan is the only country in the world which suffered from the scourge of nuclear weapons.

I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

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

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

Survival Under Atomic Attack

We were at war and it was necessary and right for us to make [atomic] bombs.

The world has been close to war before - but now man, who has survived all previous threats to his existence, has taken into his mortal hands the power to exterminate the entire species some seven times over.