Inspiration for a hydrogen bomb came from the sun and the stars.
Nuclear Quotes
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 […]
When you are talking about absurd and preposterous quantities of overkill, the relationship size of arsenals has no serious meaning.
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. (Recalling the explosion of the first atomic bomb near Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945.)
There are those who soothe themselves with the fiction that any use of nuclear bombs by “our friends” the US would be benevolent and justified. Use by others, of course, would be malevolent and unjustified. Such biased attributions are universally applied when any line is drawn between “us” and “them”. This fiction is dramatically shattered […]
We will not act prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of world-wide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth. But neither will we shrink from that risk at any time it must be faced.