#weapons

In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on and uninhabited planet. ↗

— William L. Shirer

#nuclear-weapons #war #weaponry #age

Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#death #destruction #nuclear-weapons #death

It was a needless precaution, I felt sure, but men always enjoy marching around with weapons and flexing their figurative muscles, and I saw no reason to deny them this harmless exercise. ↗

— Elizabeth Peters

#men #weapons #men

You had a good dinner of properly fried food, and if you want to live long enough to have another one, you’ve got to weaponize properly. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#self-defense #weapons #food

Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— George W. Bush

#destruction #dictator #homicidal #hussein #mass

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do. ↗

— George W. Bush

#angry #every #every time #feeling #find

Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy mentioned that he's moving in the right direction to begin to ascertain that their trade with Iran is not used for the production of nuclear weapons. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#ascertain #begin #direction #here #iran

We believe, as the President has indicated, that this combination of a rogue state that possesses weapons of mass destruction and has known ties to terrorist organizations, is a grave threat to the people of the United States and to other countries around the world. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#believe #combination #countries #destruction #grave

And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan. We know they are seeking deadlier weapons - chemical, biological and nuclear weapons if they can get it. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#biological #camps #chemical #fact #get