Atomic bomb Quote by Philip Morrison

Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.

— Wilfred Burchett

“A streetcar rattled by on the tracks as I read the headline: a single American bomb had destroyed a Japanese city. My first thought:…

— Daniel Ellsberg

My dream is to drop three atomic bombs on New York City.

— Raul Castro

I knew that I'd lived in New York too long when, a few years ago, I was on a subway going downtown, and it…

— Lewis Black

“Not that it would have diminished the gravity of what had occurred. But bomb was different. A bomb meant not only tragic incident, but…

— Elif Shafak

The atomic bomb provoked a specific accident.

— Paul Virilio

“Haven’t you grasped the significance of this discovery? In the Telluric Navel you place the most powerful valve, which enables you to foresee rain…

— Umberto Eco

“The atomic bomb brings the men home from every quarter of the earth because the war is not so much over as stunned back…

— Sebastian Barry

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

It was my responsibility that this world got itself an atom bomb, because there were only a handful of nuclear physicists in the thirties…

— L. Ron Hubbard

“There was, apparently, a nuclear reactor at a place called Indian Point, just thirty miles away in Westchester County. If something bad happened there,…

— Joseph O'Neill

“And, as the tiny lights drift into the blackness, the people pray that others around the world will remember Hiroshima and work for world…

— Laurence Yep