Considering how likely we all are to be blown to pieces by it within the next five years, the atomic bomb has not roused so much discussion as might have been expected. The newspapers have published numerous diagrams, not very helpful to the average man, of protons and neutrons doing their stuff… But curiously little […]
Nuclear Quotes
In the late 1950s, we were deep in the midst of the Cold War with the Soviet Union. We were building bomb shelters in our back yards. I have personal memories of going with my father to the bomb-shelter dealer to view their ghoulish wares. I was too young to truly appreciate their implications, but […]
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
I made one great mistake in my life – when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made.
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
We are in the era of the thermonuclear bomb that can obliterate cities and can be delivered across continents. With such weapons, war has become, not just tragic, but preposterous.
It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.
Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof – the smoking gun – that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
