Nuclear Quotes

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.

The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.