Quotes about nuclear age




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"Rest in peace. The Mistake shall not be repeated."

Cenotoph on nuclear age    Share

"Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement."

Churchill, Winston on nuclear age
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"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."

Einstein, Albert on nuclear age
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"No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent."

Gaulle, Charles De on nuclear age    Share

"Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament."

Hall, Jerry on nuclear age    Share

"What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima."

Hersey, John on nuclear age    Share

"The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land."

Houston, Libby on nuclear age    Share

"For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on nuclear age    Share

"What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined."

Macleish, Archibald on nuclear age    Share

"The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's thunderbolt became blunted, so man's thunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction."

O'Casey, Sean on nuclear age    Share

"The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness."

Truman, Harry S on nuclear age    Share

"The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it -- the speed of his acceptance."

White, Elwyn Brooks on nuclear age    Share

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