Robert Conquest Quotes

As is now generally admitted, a Soviet bomb would not have been achieved for several years more but for the success of Soviet espionage in obtaining secret information from Western scientists associated with the Manhattan Project. That is to say, political ideas in the minds of certain capable physicists and others took the form of […]

A friend of mine was at a public meeting when an open Communist, one of the speakers’ platform, said that American policy would result in atom bombs on London. “Who’ll drop those bombs?” my friend asked. And answer came there none.

To congratulate oneself on one’s warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.