Atomic bomb Quote by Joseph Grew

Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's…

— Paul Nitze

“On the afternoon of August 9, hearing the news that Nagasaki had been bombed, Emperor Hirohito called an imperial conference at which his ministers…

— George Weller

In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the long afternoon…

— Jimmy Carter

I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question,…

— Parker Stevenson

In light of 50 years of bondage of Eastern Europe, [invading the Soviet Union in 1948 to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons] was…

— Condoleezza Rice

With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at Hiroshima and…

— Pope John Paul II

With the new weapons like the atom bomb, Russia would have it, too, and use it first. It is a very difficult world. But…

— Karl Donitz

It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that…

— James Forrestal

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

“World War II, alternately known as the Second World War, began with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 and ended on…

— Merriam Press

And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Coming out of WWII, there was the assumption, the hope, the vision of a world at peace, of a kind of Wilsonian universalism, that…

— Robert Dallek