Hydrogen Bomb Quotes

• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear. Fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself, because it is fear which drives men to act foolishly, to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously...

  Sukarno

  Fear, Men, Bombs

  Sukarno's speech at the opening of the Bandung Conference, as quoted in "Selected Documents: Some Aspects Concerning Progress & Principles of the Indonesian Revolution, Book 1" (p. 14), April 18, 1955.

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• I got a four year scholarship to Harvard, and while I was there they wanted to groom me for work in the Star Wars program designing weapons ignited by hydrogen bombs. I didn't want to do that. I thought about how many scientists had died in World War II.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, War, Science

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• Let there be more corn and more meat and let there be no hydrogen bombs at all.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Meat, Bombs, Corn

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• It is impossible, except for theologians, to conceive of a world-wide scandal or a universe-wide scandal; the proof of this is the way people have settled down to living with nuclear fission, radiation poisoning, hydrogen bombs, satellites, and space rockets.

  Mary McCarthy

  Space, People, Way

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

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• The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced -- by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.

  Erich Fromm

  Science, Successful, Men

  1955 The Sane Society.

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• Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth in the awesome explosion.... Climbing at millions of miles per hour, an invisible fireball many times the size of Earth would leap from the Sun and head out across space.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Space, Climbing, Energy

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• Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded)

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Thinking, Bombs

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• Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

  Martin Heidegger

  Country, Agriculture, Essence

  "The Question Concerning Technology". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1954.

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• You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X 10^18 joules of potential energy—enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs, assuming you knew how to liberate it and really wished to make a point.

  Bill Bryson

  Average, Energy, Adults

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• Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken earlier by France, Rome and Macedonia. The curtain was rung down on that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon.

  William L. Shirer

  Taken, Moon, Rome

  William L. Shirer (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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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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• The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate. It is the scientist's job to find the ways in which these laws can serve the human will. However, it is not the scientist's job to determine whether a hydrogen bomb should be constructed, whether it should be used, or how it should be used. This responsibility rests with the American people and with their chosen representatives.

  Edward Teller

  Jobs, Responsibility, Science

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• A hydrogen bomb, for me, was puny compared to the Big Bang - the creation of the universe. That's what I really wanted to work on - the nature of the universe itself, and that's what I do for a living.

  Michio Kaku

  Bangs, Bombs, Creation Of The Universe

  "'It's all because of physics': an interview with Michio Kaku". Interview with Matt Fulkerson, www.theshorthorn.com. February 20, 2015.

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