Atomic Bomb Quotes

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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people. — Harry Browne
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. — Stephen Ambrose
If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite… — Winston Churchill
This weapon the atomic bomb has added an additional responsibility-or, better, an additional incentive-to find a sound basis for lasting peace. It provides an overwhelming… — Leslie Groves
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 enable them to… — William Bill
People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war. — Leslie Groves
We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. . . . The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world,… — Elwyn Brooks White
But when you come right down to it, the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you are… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
I will have nothing to do with a bomb! [Response to being invited (1943) to work with Otto Robert Frisch and some British scientists at… — Lise Meitner
On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New] Mexican desert. Success… — Winston Churchill
So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages. — Mahatma Gandhi
The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the problem [of transmutation],… — Frederick Soddy
The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. It can give us no protection-only the doubtful satisfaction of… — George Wald
I want to make meditation an absolute for all students, whatever the subject they may be studying, so their awareness becomes more and more clean… — Rajneesh
The ginkgo tree is from the era of dinosaurs, but while the dinosaur has been extinguished, the modern ginkgo has not changed. After the atomic… — Koji Nakanishi
In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced an… — Tadatoshi Akiba
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. — Philip Shabecoff
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You know the ones:… — Janet Fitch
To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation… — Albert Einstein

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