Suddenly, there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I have ever seen or that I think anyone has ever… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
“There was once a big atomic bomb That wanted to be a bullet. His friends all asked why, when he was such… — Tuli Kupferberg Copy Share Image
In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“The Nobel Peace Prize to end all peace prizes should have been given to Robert Oppenheimer and his fellow architects of the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Dropping of the atomic bomb was the main subject of conversation for many years and so people had very strong feelings about… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
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If surrender could have been brought about in May, 1945, or even in June or July, before the entrance of Soviet Russia… — Joseph Grew Copy Share Image
“People who worry that nuclear weaponry will one day fall in the hands of the Arabs, fail to realize that the Islamic… — Dr. Joseph Adam Pearson 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
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
“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
The scientists who made the atomic bomb are, in my sense, people with a tragic destiny. You know, there was the US… — Robert Jay Lifton 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
Native annalists may look sadly back from the future on that period when we had the atomic bomb and the Russians didn't.… — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image
Because my parents were American missionaries who sent me to public schools in rural Japan, I had to confront Hiroshima as a… — Linda Hoaglund 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
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 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
We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick… — Henry L. Stimson Copy Share Image
The time has come for those nations that rely on the force of nuclear armaments to respectfully heed the voices of peace-loving… — Iccho Itoh Copy Share Image
After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the… — Barney Ross Copy Share Image
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Someone recently talked about mass surveillance and the NSA revelations as being the atomic moment for computer scientists. The atomic bomb was… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of soldiers. It must be put into the hands of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with… — Dwight D. Eisenhower 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
This weapon the atomic bomb has added an additional responsibility-or, better, an additional incentive-to find a sound basis for lasting peace. It… — Leslie Groves 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
The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems — and in most years greatly exceeds the toll… — Kofi Annan 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
“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
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
When I first met the survivors of the Indianapolis in 1999 while writing a book about them, their story - the last… — Doug Stanton Copy Share Image
“The atomic bomb which we dropped on the people of Hiroshima was first envisioned by a woman, not a man. She was,… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
“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
The ginkgo tree is from the era of dinosaurs, but while the dinosaur has been extinguished, the modern ginkgo has not changed.… — Koji Nakanishi Copy Share Image
I will have nothing to do with a bomb! [Response to being invited (1943) to work with Otto Robert Frisch and some… — Lise Meitner Copy Share Image
“I showed him the sea. It's a great luxury, being able to see it from the balcony. When cities are bombed there… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
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