Nuclear Quotes

“Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.”
― Martin Cruz Smith

“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”
― Albert Einstein

“Actually, we’re with the United States Army stationed in Germany. My friend Paul comes here about every two to three weeks to visit his Dutch girlfriend.”
― Karl Braungart, Lost Identity

“  “Bad news. The Egyptians have left Bogotá on one of six American Airlines’ flights. Steve, I lost them.”
― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

“It wasn’t until I noticed two of the words on the sheet printed on a folder label. Sure enough, it was Williams’ study titled ‘Nuclear Waste Management.”
― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

“  “Yes, well, I thought you should see it. The cover page is in Arabic scribblin’, but the next hundred-plus pages are in five sections, and in English. I can’t for the life of me figure out what to make of it. This appears to be more American, and it seems to be a kind of scientific material. Have a look at it and let me know what to tell the boys in Z-land,”
― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

“Sometimes it's appropriate to scream at them.”
― Dr. Helen Caldicott

“Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?”
― David Mitchell, Ghostwritten

“The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic imagination, sanctioning *everything*.”
― J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition

“Most folks don't have but a few days to a week's worth of food in their houses at any given time. When they run out, they'll have to forage. Only the fools will forage in town. The smart ones will look on the outskirts.”
― Edward M. Wolfe, Hell on Ice

“Nuclear is clear so near to fear and tear.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Is the music broke, Mommy?”
― Edward M. Wolfe, Hell on Ice

“Science, the agent that once promised to eradicate the supernatural, had, through the nuclear threat, resurrected it. Magic was not exactly alive, but it was surely undead.”
― Jim Trombetta, The Horror! The Horror!: Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read!

“To be a scientist is to be naive. We are so focused on our search for truth, we fail to consider how few actually want us to find it. But it is always there, whether we see it or not, whether we chose to or not.The truth doesn't care about our needs or wants. It doesn't care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions. It will lie in wait for all time. And this, at last, is the gift of Chernobyl. Where I once would fear the cost of truth, now I only ask. "What is the cost of lies?”
― Valery Legasov (Chernobyl)

“Most people that have radiation sickness end up having a life that is much sicker than the general population.”
― Steven Magee

“For most people with radiation sickness, it is a life of significantly degraded health.”
― Steven Magee

“Atomic bomb testing was a war crime that was never prosecuted.”
― Steven Magee

“New Mexico is home to the first atomic bomb exploded on USA soil.”
― Steven Magee

“Nevada is the home of USA atomic bomb testing.”
― Steven Magee

“There are many stories of atomic bomb veterans never being compensated for developing radiation diseases.”
― Steven Magee

“In December 2023, the Hawaii government was telling rental owners they were about to ‘drop the hammer’ or go ‘nuclear’ on short-term housing rentals on Maui, as several thousand wildfire victims were still living in hotels.”
― Steven Magee

“Зупинити”
― Steven Magee

“I have been watching the Democrats run the USA for four years. The police are still corrupt and incompetent, their ‘green’ energy policy is toxic, workplace health and safety enforcement through OSHA is a ‘ghost’, Boeing is a global embarrassment, millions of people are being denied their eligible disability benefits through feeble excuses, mental illness is a national crisis, cities have filled up with the homeless, housing is out of reach to the masses, rents have gone astronomical, their proxy wars have us on the edge of the next nuclear disaster, their unemployment numbers are fraudulent because they do not count the long term unemployed or the disabled, unemployment benefits are cut off to the long term unemployed, illegal immigration went crazy during their term, and so on. I will be using my 2024 USA vote for positive change and that will not be coming from another four years of the Democrats.”
― Steven Magee

“We may see a nuclear war before we die.”
― Steven Magee

“It is only a matter of time before another nuclear bomb is detonated during war.”
― Steven Magee

“Wiping a warring city off the map will be a statement to the world, as it was in 1945.”
― Steven Magee

“Proxy wars have us on the edge of the next nuclear disaster!”
― Steven Magee

“Energy never goes away, it just changes.”
― Steven Magee

“We grew up on the fallout,
the invisible dust of ambition and fear.
We learned to dream inside bunkers,
to kiss like it was an act of rebellion
against the men in suits who wrote
the end of the world in fountain pen ink.
Maybe we didn’t even have a chance.
Maybe the dice were loaded
long before we were born,
Our names not written in peace”
― Avalon Ash, Time With Trees: 1995–2025, A Collected Work

“Advocates could also point to several studies from reputable sources indicating that the dangers of nuclear had been overblown. The WHO reported that as of 2005, almost 20 years after the accident, fewer than 50 people had died as a result of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl accident—which was by far the worst nuclear accident in history. Those who died were nearly all rescue workers who were exposed acutely. The report predicted that that number could eventually climb to 4,000, as older people eventually died of cancer that could have been related to the exposure. While this death toll is terrible (and the accident had other devastating impacts as well), it hardly sounds like the apocalyptic catastrophe it was feared to be at the”
― Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, Atomic Dreams: The New Nuclear Evangelists and the Fight for the Future of Energy