Apology Quote by Ernest Rutherford

“We were members of a research group with a great interest in nuclear physics and totally devoted to this branch of science--and ironically we…

— Takashi Nagai

“Not one single atom opposes us.”

— Zen Master Hongzhi

“The atomic bomb brings the men home from every quarter of the earth because the war is not so much over as stunned back…

— Sebastian Barry

“And, as the tiny lights drift into the blackness, the people pray that others around the world will remember Hiroshima and work for world…

— Laurence Yep

“It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you…

— Ernest Rutherford

“The atom was split by persistence.”

— Walter Kirn

“They thought the Allies would be desperate to “buy” their reactor research in the postwar era. Apparently they were not moved to check to…

— Gregory Benford

“radar won the war, whereas the atomic bomb merely ended it.”

— Jon Gertner

“Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace. ”

— David Dellinger

“My head had seen the evidence of the months leading up to nuclear meltdown—but it hadn’t followed that data to the right place. I’d…

— Audrey Faye

“Scientists expected that the Super, a fusion or "thermonuclear" weapon, would be an awesomely destructive horror that could unleash the equivalent of several million…

— James T. Patterson

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

— Martin Niemoller