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  • The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

    "Collected Writings, Volume 1" by Omar N. Bradley, 1967.
  • The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

    Wisdom   Peace   Military  
    Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 10 Nov. 1948, in Collected Writings (1967) vol. 1, p. 588
  • Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. And the way to make sure it never starts is to abolish the dangerous costly nuclear stockpiles which imprison mankind.

    War   Winning   Way  
    "Collected Writings". Book by Omar Bradley Volume 1, 1967.
  • The problem of an atomic war must not be confused by minor problems such as Communism versus capitalism. An atomic war would kill everyone, left, right, or center.

    Confused   War   Problem  
  • In the event of atomic war there is a tremendous biological advantage in the so-called undeveloped areas that have a high birth rate and high death rate because, man, they can plow under those mutations.

    War   Men   Birth Rate  
    Source: realitystudio.org
  • World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

  • 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.

  • Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the presence of fear, it would not do.

    Fear   Race   Order  
  • The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons... The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.

    Fashion   Children   War  
  • In the question of peace, people spoke up and demonstrated for peace and against the threat of war, the threat of atomic war.

    War   People   Spokes  
  • I feel worried, deeply worried, only about one thing - the possibility that we fall... that we cannot avoid an atomic war.

    War   Fall   Worried  
    Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu
  • The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.

    Lying   Heart   Nuclear  
    Albert Einstein, Colette M. Kinnon, A. N. Kholodilin, J. G. Richardson (1981). “The Impact of modern scientific ideas on society: in commemoration of Einstein”, D Reidel Pub Co
  • The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

    Love   Life   God  
    Telegram to prominent Americans, 24 May 1946
  • It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender... In being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

  • Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or all of the planet...But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the grow ing scope of atomic war and to recognize that unless another war is prevented it is likely to bring destruction on a scale never before held possible, and even now hardly conceived, and that little civilization would survive it.

  • 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.

    War   Islands   Years  
  • Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.

    J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”
  • Wars cannot be won by destroying women and children

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

    Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.118, Broadway Books
  • 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.'

    Country   War   Loss  
    "Mandate for Change: The White House Years, 1953-1956". Book by Dwight D. Eisenhower, pp. 312-313, 1963.
  • By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors.

    Children   War   Garden  
    "Two in the Bush". Book by Gerald Durrell, 1966.
  • The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)

    Lying   Heart   Thinking  
  • Armageddon. The slaughter of humanity. An atomic war no one wanted, but which no one had the wisdom to avoid.

    "Fictional character: Timmek, President of the Council". "World Without End", www.imdb.com. 1956.
  • What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences of his own folly. With a little wisdom and foresight, surely it is not yet necessary to forsake life in the fresh air and in the warmth of the sunlight. What a paradox if our own cleverness in science should force us to live underground with the moles.

    Men   Air   Moles  
    "Fulbright of Arkansas: The Public Positions of a Private Thinker". Book by J. William Fulbright, 1963.
  • The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

    Commencement address, 1946.
  • The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed.

    War   Party   Struggle  
    Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.507, Princeton University Press
  • The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

    Funny   Peace   Military  
    Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.373, Princeton University Press
  • A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.'

    Jobs   War   Thinking  
  • Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

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