Atomic armor (E. B. White)
January 29th, 2007 | Published in Politics, Quotes, War
A nation wearing atomic armor is like a knight whose armor has grown so heavy he is immobilized; he can hardly walk, hardly sit his horse, hardly think, hardly breathe. The H-bomb is an extremely effective deterrent to war, but it has little virtue as a weapon of war, because it would leave the world uninhabitable.
–E. B. White, “Sootfall and Fallout” (1956) in Essays of E.B. White (1977), p. 94