"We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that"

"Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts"

"Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait"

"You can't bomb a people just in case"

"The savages don't have atom bombs"

"After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war"

"On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes"

"I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive"

"I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed"

"No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent"

"A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb"