Destructive Capability Quotes

Research in the realm atomic destruction, has now proceeded to point where its results may possibly be made use of in the conduct of the war. Tremendous destruction … can be wrought with a minimum of effort ….Modern technique places in the hands of human beings means of destruction that are simply incredible. German science is at its peak in this matter. It is essential that we be ahead of everybody.

The dark side of our modern technological age is that more and more killing power is getting into the hands of fewer and fewer individuals.

No wall exists, however thick, that artillery cannot destroy.

Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond that which weapons of mass destruction bequeathed to the nation-states, on to a surprising and terrible empowerment of extreme individuals.

There's no debate in the world as to whether people have weapons of mass destruction... We all know that. A trained ape knows that.

I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me.

Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.

At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.

I think if a man can create something like an atom bomb, he can surely create something with his own mind.

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.

Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.

The whole technological revolution and evolution gives man tremendous capabilities for good, and it also gives individuals tremendous capability to carry out what result in lethal action.