Amount Quote by Nikita Khrushchev

Teller contended, not implausibly, that hydrogen bombs keep the peace, or at least prevent thermonuclear war, because the consequences of warfare between nuclear powers…

— Carl Sagan

“On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon the world had ever known. Called the Tsar Bomba, the…

— Annie Jacobsen

“You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7…

— Bill Bryson

“A man who has been shaken by a two-ton blockbuster has a frame of reference. He can equate the impact of an H-bomb with…

— Pat Frank

The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security ... While it has…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair.

— Pyotr Kapitsa

“Castle Bravo had been built according to the “Teller-Ulam” scheme—named for its co-designers, Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam—which meant, unlike with the far less…

— Annie Jacobsen

“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

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

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

Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.

— Bill Gates

Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control…

— Francis William Aston