Quotes About Atomic Bombs

#1. There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.

Harry Browne

#2. What the diary does not reveal, for it stops too soon, is the appalling fact that from late 1945 until 1952 Japanese medical researchers were prohibited by U.S. occupation authorities from publishing scientific articles on the effects of the atomic bombs.

John W. Dower

#3. Simply, humans should not be given explosive toys (like atomic bombs, financial derivatives, or tools to create life).

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#4. Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#5. What's beautiful about Godzilla is, of course, it's in every way a symbol of Japan dealing with the aftermath of the atomic bombs being dropped on them, and their ideas of how they're affected by it.

Victor LaValle

#6. The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

Barry Commoner

#7. We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them.

David Zindell

#8. Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.

H.G.Wells

#9. Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.

Tom Udall

#10. Time: no start no end, the most powerful force in nature, killing more people than 100 atomic bombs, generating thoughts & ideas. Devil&Good

Rossana Condoleo

#11. We do not need an atomic bomb. The Iranian nation is wise. It won't build two atomic bombs while you have 20,000 warheads.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#12. The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of their old-established habits of thought, and out of the lightly held beliefs and prejudices that came down to them from the past.

H.G.Wells

#13. Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.

Neal Stephenson

#14. The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.

Ernest Lawrence

#15. If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#16. They have fled from the true America, the America of atomic bombs, scalpings, hip-hop, chaos theory, cement overshoes, snake handlers, spree killers, space walks, buffalo jumps, drive-bys, cruise missiles; Sherman's March, gridlock, motorcycle gangs, and bungee jumping.

Neal Stephenson

#17. How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?

Gunter Grass

#18. Badger had been waiting with ever increasing certainty for that brown, government stamped envelope, to hit the floor with the impact of several atomic bombs; the shockwaves hitting him before the sound could penetrate his ears.

Paul Howsley

#19. The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems - and in most years greatly exceeds the toll of the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In terms of the carnage they cause, small arms, indeed, could well be described as 'weapons of mass destruction'.

Kofi Annan

#20. Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

George Wald

#21. After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.

Barney Ross

#22. In America, it was decided to attempt the production of atomic bombs with an effort that would constitute a large part of the collective American war effort. In Germany, an effort one thousandth the scale of the American was applied to the problem of producing atomic energy that would drive engines.

Werner Heisenberg

#23. I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.

Paul Krassner

#24. To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair.

Pyotr Kapitsa

#25. Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and sister; should they let the human race die out?

Bertrand Russell

#26. Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

John Boyd Orr

#27. My dream is to drop three atomic bombs on New York City.

Raul Castro

#28. Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice and righteousness. We must seek to remove conditions of poverty, injustice, and racial discrimination.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#29. As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, they can't leave anything alone.

Quentin Crisp

#30. If there are to be atomic bombs in the world," Groves argued, "we must have the best, the biggest, and the most.

Anonymous

#31. The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell because the Japanese had lost control of their own air.

Henry H. Arnold

#32. We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial intelligence.

James Frey

#33. We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.

Jo Nesbo

#34. Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.

Albert Einstein

#35. I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb,

John Mellencamp

#36. Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns.

L. Ron Hubbard

#37. I have thought about dropping an atomic bomb on Sydney but I wouldn't gain anything from it.

Damir Dokic

#38. The atomic bomb is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless world.

Harry S. Truman

#39. The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.

Bertrand Russell

#40. The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.

Philip Shabecoff

#41. I will have nothing to do with a bomb! [Response to being invited (1943) to work with Otto Robert Frisch and some British scientists at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb.]

Lise Meitner

#42. We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny ... The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witch hunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.

E.B. White

#43. I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that any problem that can be defined is capable of being resolved. Out of this has come my conviction that no person knows enough to be a pessimist.

Norman Cousins

#44. This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.

Oliver Stone

#45. Mankind invented the atomic bomb,
but no mouse would ever construct
a mousetrap.

Albert Einstein

#46. The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God.

Phyllis Schlafly

#47. We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#48. The Iranian regime calls for the annihilation of Israel, it oppresses its own citizens, it's part of the murder going on in Syria and it's building an atomic bomb.

Mark Regev

#49. There has been great excitement at the prospect that this atomic bomb or atomic energy is likely to produce great industrial energy very quickly, I do not believe it at all.

Ernest Bevin

#50. The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem ... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate ... man's triumph over the problem [of transmutation], and not its first misuse by politicians and military authorities.

Frederick Soddy

#51. The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.

Marshall McLuhan

#52. People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war.

Leslie Groves

#53. That's the problem with heartbreak, to you it's like an atomic bomb but to the world it's just a cliche because in the end we all have the same experience.

Olivia