Atom bomb Quote by L. Ron Hubbard

But when you come right down to it, the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

There are young people today who feel that we shouldn't have developed the atomic bomb, that it was a mistake. Through no fault of…

— Glenn T. Seaborg

The scientists who made the atomic bomb are, in my sense, people with a tragic destiny. You know, there was the US race with…

— Robert Jay Lifton

In the end, this is a difficult story to sum up. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history's most amazing examples…

— Steve Sheinkin

The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God.

— Phyllis Schlafly

I will have nothing to do with a bomb! [Response to being invited (1943) to work with Otto Robert Frisch and some British scientists…

— Lise Meitner

I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was…

— Albert Einstein

“Long ago when they first invented the atomic bomb people used to worry about its going off and killing everybody, but they didn't know…

— John Cheever

The atomic bomb provoked a specific accident.

— Paul Virilio

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

Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not…

— Langston Hughes

I was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my head.

— Marjane Satrapi