Atom bomb Quote by Bob Dylan

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already…

— William D. Leahy

Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind.

— Bernard Lown

The atomic bomb provoked a specific accident.

— Paul Virilio

We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced - and remain convinced now - that, after Hitler,…

— Martin Niemoller

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

— Harry S Truman

Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact…

— Mahatma Gandhi

In the end, this is a difficult story to sum up. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history's most amazing examples…

— Steve Sheinkin

So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called…

— Mahatma Gandhi

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so…

— John Hersey

It used to be you needed to have a very large sophisticated state before you could even have a nuclear weapon... Now the technology…

— Dick Cheney

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary…

— Henry L. Stimson