Harry S. Truman Quotes About Atomic Bomb

Quotes about: Atomic Bomb

• The atom bomb was no “great decision.” It was used in the war, and for your information, there were more people killed by fire bombs in Tokyo than dropping of the atomic bombs accounted for. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. The dropping of the bombs stopped the war, save millions of lives.

  Harry S. Truman

  Powerful, War, Fire

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

  Harry S. Truman

  Bombs, World, Atomic Bomb

  Radio Report on the Potsdam Conference, delivered 9 August 1945, White House, Washington, D.C.

• When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.

  Harry S. Truman

  Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Beast, Atomic Bomb

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

  Harry S. Truman

  Strength, Peace, Powerful

• I suppose that history will remember my term in office as the years when the Cold War began to overshadow our lives. I have hardly a day in office that has not been dominated by this all-embracing struggle. And always in the background there has been the atomic bomb. But when history says that my term of office saw the begining of the Cold War, it will also say that in those eight years we have set the course that can win it.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Struggle, Winning

  Farewell Address, delivered 15 January 1953

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