Bruce Sterling Quotes

Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.

We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

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.

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

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

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

If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.

I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.

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

This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.

Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.

There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.

Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.

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

The atomic bomb means the end of world war.

Radioactive poisoning of the atmosphere and hence annihilation of any life on earth has been brought within the range of technical possibility.

There isn’t going to be any learning curve for nuclear weapons. An administration makes one mistake and the result can destroy entire nations.

Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.

Nuclear missiles don't discriminate on party lines when they land.

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

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.

9/11 woke us up, a nuclear 9/11 could shut us down.

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

We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster.

World War III will be triggered off not by suppressed nationalists seeking political independence, as happened the first time around when the Serbs at Sarajevo shot the heir to the Austrian throne, but by some semiliterate, whacked-out "loner" who lobs a rocket into a nuclear arsenal in order to impress Brooke Shields.