Ronald Reagan Quotes

Limiting nuclear war is like limiting the mission of a match thrown in a keg of gunpowder.

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

We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.

I have a little hope that the nuclear holocaust doesn't happen.

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

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

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

I would not recommend the use of any atomic weapon, no matter how small, when both sides have the power to destroy the world.

The fewer nuclear weapons possessed by the fewest countries is safer, not only because of the possibility of a nuclear accident but also a nuclear war.

Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.

As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others.

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

Nut With A Nuke

I say in all sincerity that the nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons; their existence only adds to our perils because of the illusions which they have generated.

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact.

My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.

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.

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

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.

In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.

Nuclear weapons are what make us a great power.

I could not conceive of any President engaging in all-out nuclear war unless we were in danger of all-out devastation ourselves.

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

There is only one thing worse than one nation having the atomic bomb -- that's two nations having it.