Bombs Quotes - Page 3

• 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, Hydrogen Bomb, Building

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

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• A nuclear weapon of some dimension, whether it's actually a nuclear weapon, or a dirty bomb, or some kind of radiological device. Yes, I think it's probably a near thing.

  Michael Scheuer

  Dirty, Thinking, Nuclear

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• Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!

  Craig Reucassel

  Thinking, Space, Waste

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• This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.

  David Eddings

  Real, Umpires, Bored

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• The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.

  Benny Hill

  Funny, Airplane, Cutting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

  Antonin Artaud

  Language, Tyranny, Barricades

  Le Monde, September 11, 1970.

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• 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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• Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

  Tama Janowitz

  Fall, Kind Deeds, Long

  Slaves of New York "Modern Saint 271" (1986)

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• If surrender could have been brought about in May, 1945, or even in June or July, before the entrance of Soviet Russia into the [Pacific] war and the use of the atomic bomb, the world would have been the gainer.

  Joseph Grew

  War, June, Russia

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• Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Airplane, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

  Statement on first use of atomic bomb in combat, 6 Aug. 1945

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• It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Science, Men, Race

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• I happened to read recently a remark by the American nuclear physicist W. Davidson, who noted that the explosion of one hydrogen bomb releases a greater amount of energy than all the explosions set off by all countries in all wars known in the entire history of mankind. And he, apparently, is right.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Country, War, Hydrogen Bomb

  Address to the United Nations, New York City, on September 18, 1959. The New York Times, p. 8, September 19, 1959.

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• Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.

  Barack Obama

  Target, Used, Terror

  "The Boston Bombing and the Failure of the Military/Intelligence Complex" by Renee Parsons, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2013.

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• In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.

  Wilfred Burchett

  War, Islands, Years

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• I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

  Issey Miyake

  Want, Designer, Atomic Bomb

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• I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.

  Lee Iacocca

  Decision, Harry Truman, Hell

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• The Bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives.

  William D. Leahy

  War, Experts, Speak

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• We havent been out in many of these countries helping them build infrastructure. How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that, rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?

  Patty Murray

  Country, Iraq, People

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• David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Song, Stupid, Home

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• The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Wise, Country, Atomic Bomb

  "Women are the Best Warmakers". "The Day" Newspaper, July 8, 1982.

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• The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs.

  Kim Jong-un

  Forever, Enemy, Nuclear

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.

  J. B. Priestley

  Warfare, Nuclear, Done

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• We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  God, Fear, Science

  Strength Through Love Ch. 13

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• The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

  David Wilkerson

  Believe, Greatest Fear, Cities

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• Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945 and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.

  Paul Nitze

  War, Japan, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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