Best Mutually Assured Destruction Quotes

“The UFOs were nothing more than the collective fantasies of a stressed out society... The world into which UFOs had appeared was one of under-the-desk siren drills against nuclear annihilation. Society had made a new myth, a communal idea of something outside a species apparently intent on dooming itself.”

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Book:Artificial Gods

Source: Artificial Gods

“The promise of mutually assured destruction had a way of calming even the fiercest hearts.”

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Book:Black Legion

Source: Black Legion

“So you're saying, we've got a, a shoggoth gap?”

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Book:A Colder War

Source: A Colder War

“Here's the score. Once a thing tastes blood, it will come for more.”

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Author:Sherman Alexie

“You have theoreticians who say, "The U.S. must stop the process of nuclear armament. We have enough already. Today America has enough nuclear weapons to destroy the other half of the world. Why should we need more than that?" Let the American nuclear specialists reason this way if they want, but for some reason the nuclear specialists of the Soviet Union—and the leaders of the Soviet Union—think differently.”

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Book:Warning to the West

Source: Warning to the West

“You’re too young to remember it,” Verity's mother said, “but we were expecting nuclear war all the time, really, up into my early thirties. Later, all of that felt unreal. But the feeling that things became basically okay turns out to have actually been what was unreal.”

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Book:Agency

Source: Agency

“I gain nothing by having a rock in my boxing glove if the other fellow has one too." - Sir Denis Nayland Smith”

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Book:The Shadow of Fu-Manchu

Source: The Shadow of Fu-Manchu

“If aid I cannot, I can mightily avenge. On irremediable wrong I shrink not To pile immortal ruin, there to lie As trophies on a carven tomb: nor less For that no memory of my deed survive, Nor any eye to see, nor tongue to tell.”

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Book:Demeter: A Mask

Source: Demeter: A Mask

“Our political process appears to be a toxic dance of mutually assured destruction that takes all the citizens down with you, and that can't be right. So I've prepared a little experiment.”

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Author:Tim Dorsey

“The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear bombs on enemy cities at the end of World War II. It might work less well for Israel, because the Israeli Air Force has never deliberately targeted a large civilian population center, and its leaders have said its morality would not permit it do so.”

“It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.”

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Author:Buzz Aldrin

“Apollo 11 will probably go down in history as one of the major responses of two nations facing each other with threatening technologies - sometimes called mutually assured destruction. It was also the America's response to the apparent superiority of the Russians in putting objects into space before USA could.”

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Author:Buzz Aldrin

“Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, works only as long as it works; it does not know what to do if deterrence fails, for it envisions no defensive capabilities. A deterrent works until it is needed; then one needs defenses.”

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Author:Jerry Pournelle

“Mutually assured destruction.”

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Book:Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

“Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.”

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Book:The Writing Life

Source: The Writing Life