I made one great mistake in my life – when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made.
Nuclear Quotes
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.
It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.
Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof – the smoking gun – that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
To us who think in terms of practical use, the splitting of the atom means nothing.
If Ronald Reagan is re-elected, accidental nuclear war becomes a mathematical certainty.
It shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics.
