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
“Like the atomic bomb, it’s there; like the bomb, the temptation will always exist to use it.There can no longer be a… — D.K. Holm 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
In the end, this is a difficult story to sum up. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history's most… — Steve Sheinkin Copy Share Image
I hate the phrase “One thing led to another”. What kind of lazy writing is that? Isn't it your job as a… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
My fear is that that's what's going to happen with robotics and the military. Importantly, this discussion has to involve not just… — Peter Singer 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
Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!'… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
“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
“The Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor. They have been repaid many-fold. And the end is not yet.… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
When we blew the first atomic bomb at White Sands near the end of the war, nobody knew what was going to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In an enterprise such as the building of the atomic bomb the difference between ideas, hopes, suggestions and theoretical calculations, and solid… — Emilio G. Segre Copy Share Image
“Trinity’s witnesses responded just as those to Apollo 11 would, as J. Robert Oppenheimer remembered: "We knew the world would not be… — Craig Nelson 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
To understand how black projects began, and how they continue to function today, one must start with the creation of the atomic… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
There is a great danger to the world, not only to my country [Israel] but to the United States, to the Middle… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
I grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, which is my hometown. In Los Alamos is, for people who don't know, a… — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew… — Fran Lebowitz 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
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
Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark… — Eisaku Sato Copy Share Image
Before the first atomic bomb test, scientists took the time to calculate whether the blast would ignite the nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere… — Dennis Overbye Copy Share Image
Men and women of the world, never again plan war! With this atomic bomb, war can only mean suicide for the human… — Takashi Nagai Copy Share Image
Knowing he [Bob Serber] was going to the [first atom bomb] test, I asked him how he planned to deal with the… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese… — William D. Leahy Copy Share Image
For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
I've been telling you for years that if they don't get their way, if all of this stuff that's happened does not… — William Bill Copy Share Image
“Before 1939, it was the accepted belief of scientists that it was theoretically possible to release atomic energy. But nobody knew any… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“What a clever trap your Ruling Class set for us," he went on. "First the atomic bomb. Now this." "Trap?" I echoed… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr 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 is this self-love? Where does this come from? It got worse, because after the war we thought we'd won it. That's the first myth. Frankly, Russia won it. The Soviet Union sacrificed far…” quote by Oliver Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a20/oliver-stone-1812_american-life_if-we-americans-are-a-strong-people-a-un_2148721.jpg)
![“There is a great danger to the world, not only to my country [Israel] but to the United States, to the Middle East, to peace, to all of humanity, from the prospect that such regimes that brutalize its own people, that sponsors terrorism more than any other regime in the world - that this regime…” quote by Benjamin Netanyahu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/273/benjamin-netanyahu-2269_acquire_there-is-a-great-danger-to-the-world-not_1517047.jpg)
![“Knowing he [Bob Serber] was going to the [first atom bomb] test, I asked him how he planned to deal with the danger of rattlesnakes. He said, 'I'll take along a bottle of whiskey.' … I ended by asking, 'What would you do about those possibilities [of what unknown phenomena might cause a nuclear…” quote by Edward Teller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/358/edward-teller-12255_asking_knowing-he-bob-serber-was-going-to-the-f_3139044.png)
![“The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons... The lethal possibilities of atomic…” quote by William D. Leahy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c62/william-d-leahy-72678_adopted_the-use-of-the-atomic-bombs-at-hiroshima_581704.jpg)
