Hydrogen Bomb Quotes

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  We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

  Michael Franti

  Peace, Bombs, Pieces

  FaceBook post by Michael Franti and Spearhead from Sep 01, 2013

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• Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.

  Edward Teller

  Regret, Real, Bombs

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• Second point is no one here could predict or know that Israel was involved or started producing the hydrogen bomb - the most advanced and powerful atomic bomb that can kill millions of people.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  Powerful, Israel, People

  "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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• I also was producing, working on other materials for the hydrogen bomb. They call it lithium-6 and tritium. I was working on these and the only use for lithium-6 is the hydrogen bomb.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  Use, Bombs, Lithium

  "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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• And I also take photos of hydrogen bomb, from another part of the building. It was not part of my job, but I succeeded to go and take photos of the hydrogen bomb.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  Jobs, Bombs, Building

  Interview with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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• Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Bombs, Atomic Bomb, Fatigue

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• When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.

  Edward Teller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Seven Steps to Starting and Running an Editorial Consulting Business" by Jane M. Frutchey, (p. 121), 2002.

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• World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

  Stephen Ambrose

  War, Optimism, Bombs

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• The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

  Herbert Hoover

  Children, Soul, Use

  "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb". Book by Gar Alperovitz, 1996.

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• Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

  Edward Teller

  Simple, Physics, Physicist

  "Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics" by Edward Teller, Wendy Teller and Wilson Talley, (Ch. 10, p. 150), 1991.

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• My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.

  Edward Teller

  Courage, Fighting, Winning

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• The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole. It is necessarily an evil thing considered in any light. For these reasons, we believe it important for the President of the United States to tell the American public and the world what we think is wrong on fundamental ethical principles to initiate the development of such a weapon.

  Enrico Fermi

  Believe, Thinking, Light

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• Above all, I regret that scientific experiments-some of them mine-should have produced such a terrible weapon as the hydrogen bomb. Regret, with all my soul, but not guilt.

  Harold Urey

  Regret, Science, Should Have

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• I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute," said the student. "So is the hydrogen bomb," I replied. "But think of the damage it produces!

  George Sweeting

  Anger, Thinking, Bombs

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• I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that will be distributed equally throughout the world.

  Idi Amin

  Political, Bombs, World

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• The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security ... While it has increased their striking power it has sharpened their anxiety and deepened their sense of insecurity.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Dream, Military, Anxiety

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• I know that I could make this world peaceful and calm, if I only could get my hands on a hydrogen bomb.

  Todd Rundgren

  Hands, Peaceful, Bombs

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• Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.

  Ray Bradbury

  Philosophy, Ideas, Bombs

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• And I thought about the psychic numbing involved in strategic projections of using hydrogen bombs or nuclear weapons of any kind. And I also thought about ways in which all of us undergo what could be called the numbing of everyday life.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Psychics, Everyday, Nuclear

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• Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.

  Felix Rohatyn

  Business, Years, Mba

  "They had parties, we got the hangover" by Ruth Sunderland, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2009.

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• It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]

  Winston Churchill

  Science, Bombs, May

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• Our planet consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb. Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.

  James Lovelock

  Stars, Fall, Long Ago

  "Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth". Book by James Lovelock, 1979.

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• There is a further advantage [to hydrogen bombs]: the supply of uranium in the planet is very limited, and it might be feared that it would be used up before the human race was exterminated, but now that the practically unlimited supply of hydrogen can be utilized, there is considerable reason to hope that homo sapiens may put an end to himself, to the great advantage of such less ferocious animals as may survive. But it is time to return to less cheerful topics.

  Bertrand Russell

  Animal, Race, Cheerful

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• Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under examination had conceivably been cheered up, by a short study of the Middle Ages. The hydrogen bomb, the South African Government, Chioang Kaidick, Senator McCarthy himself, would then seem a light price to pay for no longer being in the Middle Ages.

  Kingsley Amis

  Cheer, Believe, Reality

  Kingsley Amis (1992). “Lucky Jim”, Penguin Classics

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• Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point of being god-like in ways that exceed anything a theologian could possibly imagine. Their technical achievements would seem as supernatural to us as ours would seem to a Dark Age peasant transported to the twenty-first century. Imagine his response to a laptop computer, a mobile telephone, a hydrogen bomb or a jumbo jet.

  Richard Dawkins

  Dark, Civilization, Achievement

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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