Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Atomic Bomb Quotes

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed. 
Albert Einstein 

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky. 
Lyndon B. Johnson 

Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb. 
Laura Hillenbrand 

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. 
Stephen Ambrose 

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. 
George Wald 

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul. 
Herbert Hoover 

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb. 
J. Robert Oppenheimer 


One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb. 
Marcel Pagnol 

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country. 
J. Robert Oppenheimer 

We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another. 
Henry L. Stimson 

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show. 
Wilfred Burchett 

Second point is no one here could predict or know that Israel was involved or started producing the hydrogen bomb - the most advanced and powerful atomic bomb that can kill millions of people. 
Mordechai Vanunu 

My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb. 
Mordechai Vanunu 

My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City. 
Philip Morrison

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