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“Perhaps the greatest immediate danger which faces us is the probability that our ‘demonstration’ of atomic bombs will precipitate a race in the production of these devices between the United States and Russia.”
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
“wouldn’t turn away . . . but having made all those calculations, I thought the blast might be rather bigger than expected. So I put on some suntan lotion.”
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
“The matter should continue to be regarded as of the utmost secrecy; but when a “bomb” is finally available, it might perhaps, after mature consideration, be used against the Japanese, who should be warned that this bombardment will be repeated until they surrender.”
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
“If the first choice the Target Committee identified at its first meeting was hardly big enough to confine the potential damage, it was the best the enemy had left to offer: Hiroshima is the largest untouched target not on the 21st Bomber Command priority list. Consideration should be given to this city.”
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
“Later that day Frisch looked me up and said, “You work in a microbiology lab. What do you call the process in which one bacterium divides into two?” And I answered, “binary fission.” He wanted to know if you could call it “fission” alone, and I said you could.”
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
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