Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes About Atomic Bomb

Quotes about: Atomic Bomb

• It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of soldiers. It must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Art, Military, Hands

  Address before the General Assembly of the United Nations on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, www.iaea.org. December 08, 1953.

• I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Awful, Surrender

  Newsweek, p. 107, November 11, 1963.

• Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Dark, Desire, Wish

  Atoms for Peace, delivered 8 December 1953, United Nations General Assembly

• I had been conscious a feeling of depression and so I voiced to [Secretary Of War Stimson] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at this very moment, seeking a way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face.'

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Country, War, Loss

  "Mandate for Change: The White House Years, 1953-1956". Book by Dwight D. Eisenhower, pp. 312-313, 1963.

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