Atomic bomb Quote by Tom Waits

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

— Diana Vreeland

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It…

— Wilfred Burchett

“The atomic bomb which we dropped on the people of Hiroshima was first envisioned by a woman, not a man. She was, of course,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The atomic bomb provoked a specific accident.

— Paul Virilio

“The other bomb disappeared”

— Nick Cole

When I first met the survivors of the Indianapolis in 1999 while writing a book about them, their story - the last major action…

— Doug Stanton

A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the atomic explosion…

— Paul Tibbets

At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above…

— John Hersey

She was a blonde nearly young American woman of such dynamism that the tideless waves struggled to get farther up the beach.

— Anthony J. Carson

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic…

— Wilfred Burchett

“On November 5, to kick off the final, coordinated assault on Baluch, Stu Mansfield, positioned with Atta at the warlord’s mountaintop compound, ordered the…

— Doug Stanton

The atom was unleashed in 1946, right when all this stuff was occurring. And the bomb's incredible release of energy and light may have…

— Dwight Schultz