Atomic bomb quotes

“Did you know that I can buy nuclear warheads in Minsk for forty million each? Hell, I'd buy half a dozen and even get a discount!”
John Travolta - Gabriel

“There hasn't been a world war in over forty years, Sergeant! You ever wonder why? Because of nuclear weapons. We want them, the Soviets want them.”
John Heard - Col. Glen Whitacre

“- Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen: What's this?
- Vulcan: Oh, this is our prototype. RX, uh, Intercontinental, radar-sneaky, multi-warheaded nuclear missile.
- Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen: Ah! What does it do?
- Vulcan: Do? Kills the enemy.
- Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen: All the enemy?
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Neville - Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen
Oliver Reed - Vulcan

“- Orlov: You should be more concerned about getting out of here alive.
- James Bond: I am more concerned about an atomic bomb exploding on a US Air Force base! You surely can't be inviting a full-scale nuclear war? What happens when the US retaliates?”
Steven Berkoff - Orlov
Sir Roger Moore - James Bond

“- Elektra King: You brought me something?
- Renard: The power to reshape the world. Go on, it's safe. Touch your destiny.”

Sophie Marceau - Elektra King
Robert Carlyle - Renard

“- Giles Prentice: Are you sure? I mean, how do you know that?
- Colonel Max Wilkins: Because if it had been a surface detonation, we'd have felt a different kind of ground tremor. We'd also be burned, blind, and dying.”

Frank Whaley - Giles Prentice
Delroy Lindo - Colonel Max Wilkins

“Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday machine is lost if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world?”
Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove

“- Robert F. Kennedy: At this moment the president is accepting the terms of Secretary Khrushchev's letter of Friday night: if the Soviet Union halts construction immediately, removes the missiles, and submits to UN inspection, the United States will pledge to never invade Cuba, or aid others in that enterprise.
- Anotoly Dobrinyn: If your...” (continue)(continue reading)
Steven Culp - Robert F. Kennedy
Elya Baskin - Anotoly Dobrinyn

“- Colonel William Sharp: Get off... the nuclear... warhead.
- Rockhound: I was doing that guy from that movie, you know, Slim Pickens, where he rides it all the way in, the nuclear warhead.
- Colonel William Sharp: Now.
- Rockhound: Oh, you didn't see that one, huh?”

William Fichtner - Colonel Willie Sharp
Steve Buscemi - Rockhound

“- Lt. Coffey: The M.I.R.V. is a tactical nuke. Uh, fifty kilotons, nominal yield, say... five times Hiroshima.
- Lindsey Brigman: Jesus Christ. It's world war three in a can.”
Michael Biehn - Lt. Coffey
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - Lindsey Brigman

“This place looks like pure-D dog shit, don't it? You may not think it, but there's enough explosives here... if you put a little gasoline in the right place, light a match at the wrong time... this dump would go up like a Roman candle. There'd be no way they'd ever find your bodies.”

Rip Torn - Buford Pope

“- Frank Mazzetti: This crap you're dishing out here, you trying to tell us you've got some kind of doomsday machine in there or something?
- Captain Stefan Svevo: With the information commonly available today, any enterprising... science student could build a nuclear device.”
Peter Boyle - Frank Mazzetti
Telly Savalas - Captain Stefan Svevo

“- Stu Smiley: How do you know that was a nuclear facility?
- General Dick Panzer: Well, they tricked us on that one. That's a hospital. But it's a hell of a strike!”
Kevin Pollak - Stu Smiley
Rip Torn - General Dick Panzer

“I want three stories. The first, if we succeed. The second, if we fail. The third, if we disintegrate.”
Paul Newman - Gen. Leslie R. Groves

“Shoot a nuke down a bug hole, you got a lot of dead bugs.”
Jake Busey - Ace Levy

“- Lt. Col. Thomas Devoe: Let's deal with the facts at hand. 23 hours ago, General Alexander Kodoroff stole ten nuclear warheads.
- Dr. Julia Kelly: He's just a delivery boy. I'm not afraid of the man who wants ten nuclear weapons, Colonel. I'm terrified of the man who only wants one.”
George Clooney - Lt. Col. Thomas Devoe
Nicole Kidman - Dr. Julia Kelly

“- Burke: Look, this whole station is basically a big fusion reactor, right? So you're talkin' about a thermonuclear explosion and adiós, muchachos.
- Lieutenant Gorman: Oh, great. Wonderful. Shit!”
Paul Reiser - Burke
William Hope - Lieutenant Gorman

“I was 10 when the B-29 came. My family lived underground for three days. We when came up the city was gone. Then the heat brought rain. Black rain. You made the rain black, and shoved your values down our throats. We forgot who we were.”
Tomisaburô Wakayama - Sugai

“You ever hear of the neutron bomb? Destroys people - leaves buildings standing. Fits in a suitcase. It's so small, no one knows it's there until - Blammo. Eyes melt, skin explodes, everybody dead. So immoral, working on the thing can drive you mad. That's what happened to this friend of mine. So he had a lobotomy. Now he's well again.”

Fox Harris - J. Frank Parnell

“We could give this country the biggest stick in the playground, and I intend to do that.”

Paul Newman - Gen. Leslie R. Groves

“Harry, you didn't come to me for common sense, you came to me for forgiveness. Do what you have to do. I'll still be your friend. But this is changing the course of history. You clinch the victory in the Pacific, but you sow the whirlwind.”

Colm Feore - Charlie Ross

“If I don't drop the bomb, so many more of our young men will die in the invasion of Japan. Their men, too, and women and children. How can I face the people when it's finally over, and say that I had the power to possibly end the war, long ago, spare the lives of their loved ones, and I chose not to use it?”
Gary Sinise - Harry S. Truman