The politicians and the military leaders had their own ideas about the bomb; moral scruples hardly figured in them. More important was to demonstrate to the world – and particularly to the Soviet Union – the newly acquired might of the United States.
Nuclear Quotes
The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom.
If the militarily most powerful – and least threatened – states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.
If there are enough shovels to go around, everybody’s going to make it… You’ve got to be in a hole… the dirt (covering the hole) really is the thing that protects you from the blast as well as the radiation, if there’s radiation. It protects you from the heat. You know, dirt is just great […]
To say, “If you desire peace, prepare for war,” is nuclear nonsense. In a nuclear war, no one has “a fighting chance”; there are no survivors.
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
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.
