Been Quote by Lionel Shriver

Nuclear weapons can be dismantled, but they cannot be uninvented.

— Martin Rees

You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make…

— Mark Steyn

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

I try not to invent things that people don't need.

— Thomas A. Edison

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

— Barry Commoner

“Hiroshima is like a nakedly exposed wound inflicted on all mankind.”

— Kenzaburō Ōe

Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea…

— Max von Sydow

Atom Bomb: The invention to end all other inventions.

— Nikhil Saluja

But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I have inhibitions…

— Sarah Kay

“The Fukushima nuclear complex went on to become the worst man-made engineering disaster in all of human history, outside of war.”

— Steven Magee

You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes…

— Boris Johnson

If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.

— Dominic Monaghan