Peter Abrahams Quotes

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

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

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

I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.

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

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

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

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.

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

Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.

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

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.

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

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

In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.

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

All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.

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

Nut With A Nuke

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

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

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

In the real world of real political leaders a decision that would bring even one hydrogen bomb on one city of one's own country would be recognized as a catastrophic blunder.

If the [present] deterrent is the mutual annihilation of each other ..., what else do we need and why?

Nuclear weapons exist. They probably always will. And they work, with horrible efficiency. They threaten the very future of our species. We have no choice but to manage that risk. Never again can we put the task out of our minds; nor trivialize it; nor make it routine.