A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Nuclear Quotes
A mushroom of boiling dust up to 20,000 feet. (Pilot of the B-29, Enola Gay, from which the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, August 5, 1945)
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima… The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East. (First announcement of the atomic bomb, August 6, 1945)
A physicist is an atom’s way of knowing about atoms.
Certainly it seems now that nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the earlier twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands. Yet the broad facts must […]
We Americans, we’re a simple people… but piss us off, and we’ll bomb your cities.
We will not act prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of world-wide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth. But neither will we shrink from that risk at any time it must be faced.
Had the atomic bomb turned out to be something as cheap and easily manufactured as a bicycle or an alarm clock, it might well have plunged us back into barbarism, but it might, on the other hand, have meant the end of national sovereignty and of the highly-centralized police state. If, as seems to be […]
Atomic power will make electricity too cheap to meter.
One member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff… argued that we could use nuclear weapons, on the basis that our adversaries would use theirs against us in an attack. I thought, as I listened, of the many times that I had heard the military take positions which, if wrong, had the advantage that no one […]
