There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom.
Nuclear Quotes
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 you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
Splitting the atom has changed everything but our thinking. We are drifting toward never-before-seen disaster.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two thirds of the people of the earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to safeguard against its abuse. Only a supranational organization, equipped with a sufficiently strong executive power, can protect us.
I die with the conviction, held since 1968 and Catonsville, that nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself. We have already exploded such weapons in Japan in 1945 and the equivalent of […]
There is not the slightest indication that (nuclear) energy will ever be obtainable.
The human race has today the means for annihilating itself – either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e. in a big war, by a brief fit of destruction, or by careless handling of atomic technology, through a slow process of poisoning and of deterioration in its genetic structure.
