“Eisenhower provided the first break in the Cold War, by bringing Khrushchev to the United States, in humanizing the Soviets; and then Nixon, by making the opening to China; and then Reagan, even meeting in Reykjavik with Gorbachev and acknowledging that nuclear weapons are a horror. So I won't accept that Republicans just escalate. Republicans, at least when they were more moderate, they were maybe even more isolationist, they sometimes brought sanity to the debate. We don't have that now. We have - all these Republicans have gone off the neoconservative deep end.” FirstsWarEndsSometimesStatesUnitedAcceptingBreakUnited StatesGoneColdRepublicanHorrorWeaponsMeetingsChinaNuclearDebateOpeningSanityNuclear WeaponsCold WarModeratesGorbachevReykjavik Author:Robert Scheer
“Everybody says, "Well, if it's a democracy, let them have nuclear weapons." America is the only country that has ever used nuclear weapons. We're the only ones, this democracy, our great democracy.” IfsWellsCountryAmericaUsedDemocracyWeaponsNuclearNuclear Weapons Author:Robert Scheer
“I happen to love America. I love this freedom and democracy. The fact is we are the ones who killed innocent people, men, women and children, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons, weapons that should have never been used, should have never been developed in the first place, you know?” PeopleKnowsMenShouldFirstsChildrenFactsHappensAmericaUsedDemocracyWeaponsShould HaveNuclearInnocentNuclear WeaponsMen WomenHiroshimaHiroshima And Nagasaki Author:Robert Scheer
“Nuclear weapons are inherently threatening to all of civilization. If that had been a nuclear weapon at the World Trade Center, even the most primitive kind of the Hiroshima, Nagasaki, you wouldn't have a Manhattan. There wouldn't be a democracy of any kind in America.” IfsWorldKindAmericaDemocracyCivilizationWeaponsTradeNuclearNuclear WeaponsPrimitiveThreateningManhattanHiroshimaWorld TradeWorld Trade Center Author:Robert Scheer
