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My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb. -- Mordechai Vanunu
The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul. -- Herbert Hoover
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. -- Stephen Ambrose
My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City. -- Philip Morrison
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed. -- Albert Einstein
The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Second point is no one here could predict or know that Israel was involved or started producing the hydrogen bomb - the most advanced and powerful atomic bomb that can kill millions of people. -- Mordechai Vanunu
The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini. -- Tom Waits
We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another. -- Henry L. Stimson
When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show. -- Wilfred Burchett
Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime. -- George Wald
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. -- Philip Shabecoff
The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind. -- Bertrand Russell
We do not need an atomic bomb. The Iranian nation is wise. It won't build two atomic bombs while you have 20,000 warheads. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope. -- John Boyd Orr
Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs. -- Tom Udall
Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the problem [of transmutation], and not its first misuse by politicians and military authorities. -- Frederick Soddy
Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars. -- Eisaku Sato
After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war. -- Barney Ross
If surrender could have been brought about in May, 1945, or even in June or July, before the entrance of Soviet Russia into the [Pacific] war and the use of the atomic bomb, the world would have been the gainer. -- Joseph Grew
The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. -- George Wald
Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb. -- Laura Hillenbrand
One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb. -- Marcel Pagnol
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. -- Janet Fitch
Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone. -- Graham Hawkes
I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima. -- Issey Miyake
How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime? -- Gunter Grass
Hibakusha' is an animated docu-drama that Choz Belen and I are directing, and it will take you through the earliest memories of a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor named Kaz Suyeishi. -- Steve Nguyen
I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers. -- Lee Iacocca
Weapons of mass destruction are the greatest threat to life on earth. Biological weapons are often called the poor man's atomic bomb. Saddam Hussein is the ruler who has for decades been making the most determined and diabolical illegal effort to acquire them. -- William Shawcross
In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen. -- Annie Jacobsen
I grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, which is my hometown. In Los Alamos is, for people who don't know, a nuclear lab that built the atomic bomb. The only reason the town exists is to make nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, and that's still happening there. -- Drew Goddard
To understand how black projects began, and how they continue to function today, one must start with the creation of the atomic bomb. The men who ran the Manhattan Project wrote the rules about black operations. The atomic bomb was the mother of all black projects, and it is the parent from which all black operations have sprung. -- Annie Jacobsen
The atomic bomb provoked a specific accident. -- Paul Virilio
We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids ? -- Isidor Isaac Rabi
Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns. -- L. Ron Hubbard
The atomic bomb is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless world. -- Harry S. Truman
Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap. -- Albert Einstein
I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb, -- John Mellencamp
I think that American salesmanship can be a weapon more powerful than the atomic bomb. -- Henry J. Kaiser
The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God. -- Phyllis Schlafly
I have thought about dropping an atomic bomb on Sydney but I wouldn't gain anything from it. -- Damir Dokic
People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war. -- Leslie Groves
In the shadow of the atomic bomb it has become even more apparent that all men are, indeed, brothers. -- Albert Einstein
One has to watch out for engineers. They begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb. -- Marcel Pagnol
So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger. -- Albert Einstein
The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell because the Japanese had lost control of their own air. -- Henry H. Arnold
The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb. -- Marshall McLuhan
I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima. -- Issey Miyake
It is the large brain capacity which allows man to live as a human being, enjoy taxes, canned salmon, television, and the atomic bomb. -- Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial intelligence. -- James Frey
The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. It can give us no protection-only the doubtful satisfaction of retaliation. -- George Wald
Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan. -- Chester W. Nimitz
We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Iranian regime calls for the annihilation of Israel, it oppresses its own citizens, it's part of the murder going on in Syria and it's building an atomic bomb. -- Mark Regev
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead. -- Clint Smith
There has been great excitement at the prospect that this atomic bomb or atomic energy is likely to produce great industrial energy very quickly, I do not believe it at all. -- Ernest Bevin
This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine. -- Oliver Stone
Thatâ??s the problem with heartbreak, to you itâ??s like an atomic bomb but to the world itâ??s just a cliche because in the end we all have the same experience. -- Olivia
I will have nothing to do with a bomb! [Response to being invited (1943) to work with Otto Robert Frisch and some British scientists at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb.] -- Lise Meitner

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