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

After the atomic bombs were dropped the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet the Missouri and the rest of them while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.

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

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.

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.

Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics atomic structure or biological inheritance.

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.