Electromagnetic Pulse/post%e2%80%93cold War Nuclear Emp Attack Scenarios

Famous quotes containing the words pulse, nuclear, attack and/or scenarios:

    “While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.”
    —Ronald, Sir Mason (b. 1930)

    “When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.”
    —Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

    “The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)