A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
Nuclear Quotes
The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to safeguard against its abuse. Only a supranational organization, equipped with a sufficiently strong executive power, can protect us.
I die with the conviction, held since 1968 and Catonsville, that nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself. We have already exploded such weapons in Japan in 1945 and the equivalent of […]
There is not the slightest indication that (nuclear) energy will ever be obtainable.
The human race has today the means for annihilating itself – either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e. in a big war, by a brief fit of destruction, or by careless handling of atomic technology, through a slow process of poisoning and of deterioration in its genetic structure.
The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.
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.
