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Nuclear weapons22 quotes
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 · 1987I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita…"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." — J. Robert Oppenheimer · 1965North Korean Leader Kim Jung Un just stated that the "Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times." Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works! — Donald Trump · 2018The 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 · 1945At first it was a giant column that soon took the shape of a supramundane mushroom. — William L. Laurence · 1945All 22 quotes →Cold War4 quotes
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 · 1987We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked. — Dean Rusk · 1962To 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 · 1961The 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 · 1963World War II3 quotes
The 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 · 1945The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage. — Emperor Hirohito · 1945Cuban Missile Crisis2 quotes
We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked. — Dean Rusk · 1962The 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 · 1963American politics1 quote
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 · 1987Atomic Age1 quote
Behind 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 · 1946Brinkmanship1 quote
We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked. — Dean Rusk · 1962Civilization1 quote
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two thirds of the people of the earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored. — Albert Einstein · 1945Doomsday machine1 quote
Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines. — Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson · 1964Moments of discovery1 quote
Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. Certain aspects of the situation which has arisen seem to call for watchfulness and if necessary, quick action on the part of the Administration. — Albert Einstein · 1939Moral progress1 quote
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. — Omar Bradley · 1948Nuclear disarmament1 quote
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 · 1987Nuclear holocaust1 quote
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two thirds of the people of the earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored. — Albert Einstein · 1945Nuclear war1 quote
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two thirds of the people of the earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored. — Albert Einstein · 1945Physics1 quote
Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. Certain aspects of the situation which has arisen seem to call for watchfulness and if necessary, quick action on the part of the Administration. — Albert Einstein · 1939Progress1 quote
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. — Omar Bradley · 1948Technological progress1 quote
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. — Omar Bradley · 1948The atom bomb1 quote
The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage. — Emperor Hirohito · 1945War1 quote
In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself. — Hunter · 1995