# Quote — Martin Amis, Einstein's Monsters

> What is the only provocation that could bring about the use of nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the priority target for nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the only established defense against nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. How do we prevent the use of nuclear weapons? By threatening to use nuclear weapons. And we can't get rid of nuclear weapons, because of nuclear weapons. The intransigence, it seems, is a function of the weapons themselves.

- Author: [Martin Amis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-amis.md)
- Book: [Einstein's Monsters](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-amis/einsteins-monsters.md)
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> The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.

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> Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

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> "Einstein's Monsters," by the way, refers to nuclear weapons, but also to ourselves. We are Einstein's monsters, not fully human, not for now.

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