Peter Sellers Quotes

It is impossible to work out a reduction in nuclear threat as long as one side is going all out to demonize the other.

By God, war is not an option for two nuclear countries.

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

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

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.

Nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary a choice of either a humiliating defeat or a nuclear war.

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.

The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.

We ought to nuke North Korea right about now just to give the world a warning.

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.

It is the ultimate end of absurdity for the arms race to go on.

The nuclear threat is a direct product of the cult of force that has dominated the world for centuries.

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

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.

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

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.

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.

Nuclear weapons are infinitely less important in our foreign policy than they were in the days of the Cold War. I don't think we need nuclear weapons any longer.

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

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

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