Application Quote by Harold Urey

“I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or be the…

— Harold Urey

There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the fundamental energy…

— Frederick Soddy

“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

Most of my scientific work has been basic research. There were no immediate uses for my discoveries, but today the radioisotopes are the workhorses…

— Glenn T. Seaborg

“I don’t know how Albert would have felt about this, but an unknown element was discovered in the debris of the first hydrogen bomb…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

There has been great excitement at the prospect that this atomic bomb or atomic energy is likely to produce great industrial energy very quickly,…

— Ernest Bevin

If some nuclear properties of the heavy elements had been a little different from what they turned out to be, it might have been…

— Emilio G. Segre

I also was producing, working on other materials for the hydrogen bomb. They call it lithium-6 and tritium. I was working on these and…

— Mordechai Vanunu

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the…

— Enrico Fermi

I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by.

— Doc Brown

A nuclear weapon of some dimension, whether it's actually a nuclear weapon, or a dirty bomb, or some kind of radiological device. Yes, I…

— Michael Scheuer

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