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Jai Ganesh

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Bomb Quotes

Bomb Quotes

1. Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts. - Benito Mussolini

2. 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 will be killed. - Albert Einstein

3. When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb. - J. Robert Oppenheimer

4. The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the math of righteousness. - Harry S Truman

5. The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky. - Lyndon B. Johnson

6. I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence. - Dalai Lama

7. I would say that I was absolutely convinced of the possibility of our making an uranium engine, but I never thought that we would make a bomb; and at the bottom of my heart, I was really glad that it was to be an engine and not a bomb. - Werner Heisenberg

8. The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country. - J. Robert Oppenheimer

9. The German physicists knew at least so much about the manufacture and construction of atomic bombs that it was clear to them that the manufacture of bombs in Germany could not succeed during the war. For this reason, they were spared the moral decision whether they should make an atomic bomb, and they had only worked on the uranium engine. - Werner Heisenberg

10. No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. - Charles de Gaulle

11. Reports in Washington show that our reasoning was just like that of your physicists. With all this information available, at least to privileged persons, I cannot understand why it is generally held in the United States that we completely missed the basic principle of the bomb until after Hiroshima. - Werner Heisenberg

12. I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet. - Barbara Bush.

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