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“Some called it the “Super,” because it could release 1,000 times as much explosive energy as the atomic bombs that were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the war. It was a thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb.”
― Fred Kaplan, The Wizards of Armageddon

“Thus in the first months of 1940 it was already clear to two intelligent observers that nuclear weapons would be weapons of mass destruction against which the only apparent defense would be the deterrent effect of mutual possession.”
― Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition

“About one hundred refugee physicists emigrated to the United States between 1933 and 1941.727”
― Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition

“It is impossible to describe the utter despair of all classes of Jews in Germany. 718 The thoroughness with which they are being hounded out and stopped short in their careers is appalling. Unless help comes from the outside, there is no outlook for thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, except starvation or [suicide]. It is a gigantic “cold pogrom” and it is not only against Jews; Communists of course are included, but are not singled out racially; Social Democrats and Liberals generally are now or are coming under the ban, especially if they protest in the least against the Nazi movement. . . .”
― Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition