Nuclear Arms Race/d%c3%a9tente

Famous quotes containing the words nuclear, arms and/or race:

    The problems of the world, AIDS, cancer, nuclear war, pollution, are, finally, no more solvable than the problem of a tree which has borne fruit: the apples are overripe and they are falling—what can be done?... Nothing can be done, and nothing needs to be done. Something is being done—the organism is preparing to rest.
    David Mamet (b. 1947)

    A line in long array, where they wind betwixt green islands;
    They take a serpentine course—their arms flash in the sun—hark to the musical clank;
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    This is my father or, maybe,
    It is as he was,

    A likeness, one of the race of fathers: earth
    And sea and air.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)