#nuclear war

From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process. ↗

— Herman Kahn

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In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it. ↗

— Herman Kahn

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

— Herman Kahn

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I can't understand why anyone would want nuclear warheads. If you shoot them off, it's not like you can take over that country-all you do is kill millions of people. ↗

— Rick Yune

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

— Larry Niven

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In nuclear war all men are cremated equal. ↗

— Dexter Gordon

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Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war. ↗

— William Odom

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

— Jack Scalia

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There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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