There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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.
I'm going to destroy Android because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.
today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.
Without perestroika the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.
Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962 do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?
Mankind needs peace more than ever for our entire planet threatened by nuclear war is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke only man can prevent.
Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara who is a good businessman and likes to save says it would be only 200 million.
How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a dozen or more regions like melons in a field is not easy to imagine.
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.
Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty Pro-War Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs Pro-Nuclear Weapons Pro-Guns Pro-Torture Pro-Land Mines AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.'
Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness and every nation has an excuse
I firmly believe that nuclear war is absolutely impossible. I don't think anyone in the world wants a nuclear war - not even the Russians.
Nuclear war is inevitable says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible says the realists.
In a nuclear war there would be no victors only victims. The truth of peace requires that all ... strive for a progressive and concerted nuclear disarmament.
We believe US threats of an approaching World War III and their use of Iran's nuclear issue as an excuse is another form of American insanity.
The current situation of the earthquake tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World War II.
The world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind today as did the nuclear standoff between the superpowers at the height of the Cold War.
I not only saw the possibility of nuclear war I feared it very much. If they started a military conflagration it would automatically lead to nuclear warfare.
...nuclear threats and nuclear weapons are the last argument of weak stressed and irresponsible politicians. People must act very quicky to stop the movement to nuclear war.
One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war but everything works out in the end.
I came into politics because of a real childhood concern about the Cold War. So to me the importance of the nuclear deterrent is actually really ingrained in me.
In fact the United States is building up its trident nuclear sub fleet in the Pacific based at Bangor Washington to build up its capabilities to wage nuclear war.
If you asked me to name the three scariest threats facing the human race I would give the same answer that most people would: nuclear war global warming and Windows.
Short of nuclear war itself population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act the problem will be solved by famine riots insurrection and war.
Their talk was endless compulsive and indulgent sometimes sounding like the remains of the English language after having been hashed over by nuclear war survivors for a few hundred years.
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not of course from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war but rather from an investigation of the governing physics.
Bobby Tom told me he's not afraid of the Chargers' defense." "Bobby Tom'll tell you he's not afraid of nuclear war so I wouldn't put too much stock in his opinion.
If there was a war a big war a major war on the planet it would be a nuclear war and it would destroy all life human and subhuman on planet earth.
Sooner or later disasters such as an asteroid collision or a nuclear war could wipe us all out But once we spread out into space and establish independent colonies our future should be safe.,Stephen Hawking