President truman Quote by Garrett M. Graff

“September 24, 1947, when President Truman signed a memo to the Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, authorizing the creation of “Operation Majestic Twelve.”

— Michael E. Salla

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

— Martin Niemoller

“I do not know the substance of the considerations and recommendations which Dr. Szilárd proposes to submit to you,” Einstein wrote. “The terms of…

— Walter Isaacson

“He and Willoughby preferred that the Pentagon and the Truman administration be completely dependent upon them for any information about what was going on…

— David Halberstam

“If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war. […

— Ernest Rutherford

“The numbers were, at best, guesstimates, and all three men knew it. The relevant figure would ultimately be the one that represented the most…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to…

— Lee Iacocca

“I am now convinced that we have recently become possessed of experimental evidence of the discrete or grained nature of matter, which the atomic…

— Wilhelm Ostwald

In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an…

— Annie Jacobsen

“The atom was split by persistence.”

— Walter Kirn

“The U.S. would have to “reinterpret” the Constitution to provide for preemptive searches and seizures when atomic terrorism was involved. Remarkably, over the decades…

— Garrett M. Graff

“About these scientists,” Truman said, “we need men with great intellects, need their ideas. But we need to balance them with other kinds of…

— David McCullough