Nuclear Quotes

Stimson, what was gunpowder? Trivial. What was electricity? Meaningless. This atomic bomb is the Second Coming in Wrath.

Atomic energy might be as good as our present day explosives, but is unlikely to produce anything very much more dangerous. (1939)

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.