Nuclear Quotes

It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy electrical energy in their homes too cheap to meter.

Inspiration for a hydrogen bomb came from the sun and the stars.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

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.

It’s Christmas at Ground Zero The button has been pressed The radio Just let us know That this is not a test Everywhere the atom bombs are droppin’ It’s the end of all humanity No more time for last minute shoppin’ It’s time to face your final destiny. It’s Christmas at Ground Zero Now the […]

There will be no nuclear war. There’s too much real estate involved.