The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us.
Nuclear Quotes
There are also enough rocks on Earth to kill the world’s population several times over. (explaining why it’s necessary to have more than enough nukes) Lt.
Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He’ll come in handy if you run out of food.
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.
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.
