It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the Soviet's three hundred.

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.

Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure

General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!

They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.