There has been a great deal said about a 3,00-mile high-angle rocket. The people who have been writing these things that annoy… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What struck me as I began to study history was how nationalist fervor--inculcated from childhood on by pledges of allegiance, national anthems,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
There are three bombs. The first one is the atomic bomb, which disintegrates reality, the second one is the digital or computer… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“When the first atomic bomb exploded in New Mexico, the desert sand turned to fused green glass. This fact, according to the… — Maxwell Igan Copy Share Image
“They think they are interested about the atomic bomb but they really are not not any more than I am. Really not.… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I suppose that history will remember my term in office as the years when the Cold War began to overshadow our lives.… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Armageddon. The slaughter of humanity. An atomic war no one wanted, but which no one had the wisdom to avoid. — Edward Bernds Copy Share Image
One has to watch out for engineers. They begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb. — Marcel Pagnol Copy Share Image
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The fact is that it's the most dangerous place to be on the political scale is to brand those on the other… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
There are young people today who feel that we shouldn't have developed the atomic bomb, that it was a mistake. Through no… — Glenn T. Seaborg Copy Share Image
In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. …… — Emilio G. Segre Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Baker, can I ask you a question?" "Does it have to do with local points of architechtiual interest?" "Yes." "What is… — Gary .D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Second point is no one here could predict or know that Israel was involved or started producing the hydrogen bomb - the… — Mordechai Vanunu Copy Share Image
I call on all scientists in all countries to cease and desist from work creating, developing, improving and manufacturing further nuclear weapons… — Hans Bethe Copy Share Image
The Atomic Age was born in secrecy, and for two decades after Hiroshima, the high priests of the cult of the atom… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time on a small, watery, excitable planet called Earth, in a small, watery, excitable country called Italy, a soft-spoken,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The atom bomb was no “great decision.” It was used in the war, and for your information, there were more people killed… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“Though I'd never forgotten Alan, I hadn't uttered his name aloud in the many years since he'd died, back in that decade… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Where is my guilt? I can regret. I can regret that I made the party film, 'Triumph of the Will,' in 1934.… — Leni Riefenstahl Copy Share Image
The ghost of the heart of manred Cain And the more murderous brain Of Man, still redder Nero that conceived the death… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Active-shooter scenarios have become part of the education lexicon. I had fire drills. My parents had duck and cover - nuclear and… — Keith Maitland Copy Share Image
Today we are rightly in an era of disarmament and dismantlement of nuclear weapons. But in some countries nuclear weapons development still… — Hans Bethe Copy Share Image
“For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
Often in evolutionary processes a species must adapt to new conditions in order to survive. Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The German physicists knew at least so much about the manufacture and construction of atomic bombs that it was clear to them… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image