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We have listened to the wisdom in an old Russian maxim. And I'm sure you're familiar with it, Mr. General Secretary…The maxim is…trust, but verify. — Ronald Reagan · 1987The enemy has begun to employ a new and most cruel bomb, the power of which to do damage is indeed incalculable, taking the toll of many innocent lives. Should we continue to fight, it would not only result in an ultimate collapse and obliteration of the Japanese nation, but also it would lead to the total extinction of human civilization. Such being the case, how are we to save the millions of our subjects, or to atone ourselves before the hallowed spirits of our imperial ancestors?... It is according to the dictate of time and fate that we have resolved to pave the way for a grand peace for all the generations to come by enduring the unavoidable and suffering what is insufferable. — Emperor Hirohito · 1945Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima... The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East. — Harry Truman · 1945Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work our salvation…we must elect world peace or world destruction. — Bernard Baruch · 1946Having found the bomb we have used it. — Harry Truman · 1945To those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction. — John F. Kennedy · 1961All 7 quotes →Action1 quote
In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself. — Hunter · 1995Action (film)1 quote
In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself. — Hunter · 1995Black comedy1 quote
Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines. — Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson · 1964Black comedy (film)1 quote
Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines. — Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson · 1964Commencement address1 quote
It did not take atomic weapons to make man want peace, a peace that would last. But the atomic bomb was the turn of the screw. It has made the prospect of future war unendurable. — J. Robert Oppenheimer · 1946Documentary (film)1 quote
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita…"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." — J. Robert Oppenheimer · 1965Political literature1 quote
The world stood like a playing card on edge... One looked at the buildings one passed and wondered if one was to see them again. — Norman Mailer · 1963Thriller1 quote
In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself. — Hunter · 1995Thriller (film)1 quote
In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself. — Hunter · 1995War1 quote
Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines. — Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson · 1964War (film)1 quote
Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines. — Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson · 1964