Action Quote by Richard P. Feynman

In America, it was decided to attempt the production of atomic bombs with an effort that would constitute a large part of the collective…

— Werner Heisenberg

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

“In fact, it took the resources of three countries to produce the bomb: the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. But there was more…

— Gregory Benford

On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New] Mexican desert.…

— Winston Churchill

“In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor." James Franck, The Manhattan Project neatly summarize the atmic…

— James Franck

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 British bombed German cities [during World War II] to keep the workers awake at night. So instead of dropping one bomb, we sent…

— George Friedman

The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the…

— Joseph Rotblat

Reports in Washington show that our reasoning was just like that of your physicists. With all this information available, at least to privileged persons,…

— Werner Heisenberg

I'm not the sort of fellow who does the same thing all the time. I began using a lot of science fiction apparatus. I…

— Jack Kirby

Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt…

— Eric Holder

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