Stephen Ambrose Quotes

The atomic bomb means the end of world war.

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

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

There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one.

If the Third World War is fought with nuclear weapons, the fourth will be fought with bows and arrows.

The lesson of history is when a war starts every nation will ultimately use whatever weapon it has available. ... Therefore, we must expect that if another war — a serious war — breaks out, we will use nuclear energy in some form.

"World War III, was the Cold War".

I feel worried, deeply worried, only about one thing - the possibility that we fall... that we cannot avoid an atomic war.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could have plunged both countries into thermonuclear war.

The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.

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.

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

The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own.

In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.

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

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

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

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

The dangers of atomic war are overrated. It would be hard on little, concentrated countries like England. In the United States we have lots of space.

Nineteen forty-five marked the nadir of Western Civilization.

In Los Alamos we were motivated by the desire to develop the atomic bomb before the Germans could do it. That was our main motivation …. The Germans surrendered before the bomb was ready and so it was obvious to use it against our remaining enemy [Japan].

Disarmament has become the urgent imperative of our time. I do not say this because I equate the absence of arms to peace, or because I believe that bringing an end to the nuclear arms race automatically guarantees the peace, or because the elimination of nuclear warheads from the arsenals of the world will bring in its wake that change in attitude requisite to the peaceful settlement of disputes between nations. Disarmament is vital today, quite simply, because of the immense destructive capacity of which men dispose.

In 'The World Set Free,' the world's major superpowers attack each other simultaneously.