Nuclear war

Nuclear warfare, also known as atomic warfare, is a military conflict or prepared political strategy that deploys nuclear weaponry.

We're in God's hands. But He does not look kindly on Babel-builders.
—J. R. R. Tolkien

Quotes

• If they do not now accept our terms they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth.
  • Harry S. Truman, White House Press Release Announcing the Bombing of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945); this announcement was based largely on a draft of 31 July, by Secretary of War Henry Stimson

• The news today about "Atomic bombs" is so horrifying one is stunned. ... Such explosives in men's hands, while their moral and intellectual status is declining, is about as useful as giving out firearms to all inmates of a gaol and then saying that you hope "this will ensure peace". But one good thing may arise out of it, I suppose, if the write-ups are not overheated: Japan ought to cave in. Well we're in God's hands. But He does not look kindly on Babel-builders.
  • J. R. R. Tolkien, from a letter to his son Christopher (August 9, 1945) in The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)

• There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
  • Adlai Stevenson II, "The Atomic Future", Speech at Hartford, Connecticut (September 18, 1952), in Speeches of Adlai Stevenson (1952)

• There is no monopoly on common sense
  On either side of the political fence.
  We share the same biology, regardless of ideology.
  Believe me when I say to you,
  I hope the Russians love their children too.
  • Sting, "Russians", The Dream of the Blue Turtles (1985)

See also

• Nuclear weapons