Had the atomic bomb turned out to be something as cheap and easily manufactured as a bicycle or an alarm clock, it might well have plunged us back into barbarism, but it might, on the other hand, have meant the end of national sovereignty and of the highly-centralized police state. If, as seems to be […]
Nuclear Quotes
Atomic power will make electricity too cheap to meter.
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.
The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
I made one great mistake in my life – when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made.
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
We are in the era of the thermonuclear bomb that can obliterate cities and can be delivered across continents. With such weapons, war has become, not just tragic, but preposterous.
