Nuclear war

We're in God's hands. But He does not look kindly on Babel-builders.
—J. R. R. Tolkien

Nuclear warfare, also known as atomic warfare, is a military conflict or prepared political strategy that deploys nuclear weaponry.

Quotes

• The news today about "Atomic bombs" is so horrifying one is stunned. ... Such explosives in men's hands, while their moral and intellectual status is declining, is about as useful as giving out firearms to all inmates of a gaol and then saying that you hope "this will ensure peace". But one good thing may arise out of it, I suppose, if the write-ups are not overheated: Japan ought to cave in. Well we're in God's hands. But He does not look kindly on Babel-builders.
  • J. R. R. Tolkien, from a letter to his son Christopher (August 9, 1945) in The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)

• There is no monopoly on common sense
  On either side of the political fence.
  We share the same biology, regardless of ideology.
  Believe me when I say to you,
  I hope the Russians love their children too.
  • Sting, "Russians", The Dream of the Blue Turtles (1985)

See also

• Nuclear weapons