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“Just as access to wealth in the form of money determines an individual’s opportunities and place in a social hierarchy, access to power in the form of nuclear weapons determines a state’s opportunities and place in the international
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“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
“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
“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
“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
“Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control its almost infinite power. We cannot prevent him from doing so and can only hope that he will not use it exclusively in blowing up his next door neighbor.”
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
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