Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
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)
I consider your crime worse than murder… I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-Bomb years before our best scientists predicted Ruissia would perfect the bomb has already caused, in my opinion, the Communist aggression in Korea, with the resultant casualties exceeding 50,000 and who knows but that millions […]
We are not bent on conquest or on threatening others. But we do have a nuclear umbrella that can protect others, above all the states to which we are allied or in which we have a great national interest.
If we do have too start over again with another Adam and Eve, then I want them to be Americans and not Russians, and I want them on this continent and not in Europe.
To my mind, the nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself. It is only something with which, in a moment of petulance or panic, you commit such fearful acts of destruction as no sane person would […]
