“The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.”
George Orwell
“I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.”
Albert Einstein
“As the bomb fell over Hiroshima and exploded, we saw an entire city disappear. I wrote in my log the words: "My God, what have we done?"”
Capt Robert Lewis
“The Indonesian national police forensic team has quickly been able to determine the number of bombs involved. What we're working with them on now is the actual make-up of the bomb. They're quite a different bomb to the ones we've seen been used before.”
Mick Keelty
“A suicide bomber wanted to get into the headquarters and while police were searching for him he detonated the bomb that killed 13 people, among which seven are police and six civilians.”
Yousuf Stanizai
“They could easily hit the city of Cheyenne. They could disable our railway system by using bombs. I hate to see us cut out of the picture.”
Dave Coleman
“Up to fifty atomic bombs should be dropped on Chinese cities,”
Douglas MacArthur