Atomic bomb Quote by Emilio G. Segre

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

Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands? No one knows. No one can…

— Edward Teller

As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, "they can't leave anything alone."

— Quentin Crisp

I would say that I was absolutely convinced of the possibility of our making an uranium engine, but I never thought that we would…

— Werner Heisenberg

North Korea conducted a nuclear test and the blast was so small that many scientists are saying it was a dud. Apparently, the nuclear…

— Conan O'Brien

Before the first atomic bomb test, scientists took the time to calculate whether the blast would ignite the nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere and incinerate…

— Dennis Overbye

“Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilárd , which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the…

— Albert Einstein

You can't disassemble a bomb unless you understand how it was built.

— Josh Tickell

“In fact, it took the resources of three countries to produce the bomb: the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. But there was more…

— Gregory Benford

The bottom line is this - whereas Iran was steadily expanding its nuclear program, we have now cut off every single path that Iran…

— Barack Obama

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

— Harry S Truman

We [India in 70s] certainly were capable of producing eight to ten bombs, at a cost of about $250,000 each; and we had Boeing…

— Subramanian Swamy