The Massive Issue Going Mainly Unaddressed
The button. The ultimate issue for us, for all of us…most immediately, in this election. Or, more accurately, whose finger do you want on the nuclear launch button? Who do you want the nuclear ‘football’ following around?
Why? What’s at stake? A quick review.
Read the brief article. Watch the 4 minute video. (and, for a broad embrace of the madness view Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove.)
Opinions: From AZ Quotes
In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.
Dexter Gordon
The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.
Nikita Khrushchev
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
Omar N. Bradley (Five star American General & first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff)
A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
Elie Wiesel
Teller contended, not implausibly, that hydrogen bombs keep the peace, or at least prevent thermonuclear war, because the consequences of warfare between nuclear powers are now too dangerous. We haven't had a nuclear war yet, have we? But all such arguments assume that the nuclear-armed nations are and always will be, without exception, rational actors, and that bouts of anger and revenge and madness will never overtake their leaders (or military and secret police officers in charge of nuclear weapons).
Carl Sagan
I want to say, and this is very important: at the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear war. We came that close to nuclear war at the end. Rational individuals: Kennedy was rational; Khrushchev was rational; Castro was rational. Rational individuals came that close to total destruction of their societies. And that danger exists today.
Robert McNamara
A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. The only value in our two nations possessing nuclear weapons is to make sure they will never be used. But then would it not be better to do away with them entirely?
Ronald Reagan
The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.
John F. Kennedy
May we choose wisely.