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The atomic bomb provoked a specific accident.
Paul Virilio /
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Provoked
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My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb.
Mordechai Vanunu / Technician
Jobs
Atomic Bomb
Bombs
Plutonium
Produce
Atomic
Bomb
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The atomic bomb is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless world.
Harry S. Truman / 33Rd U.s. President
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Bombs
World
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The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.
George Wald / Scientist
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Use
Somebody
Only
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Bomb
Else
Using
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When you see something that is technically sweet you go ahead and do it.
J. Robert Oppenheimer / Theoretical Physicist
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Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns.
L. Ron Hubbard / Author
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Radiation
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Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.
Laura Hillenbrand / Author
Experience
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Bombs
Fatigue
Hydrogen Bomb
Atomic
Bomb
Match
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Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.
Albert Einstein / Theoretical Physicist
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Mankind
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The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God.
Phyllis Schlafly / Lawyer
Wise
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Bombs
Country
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
P. J. O'rourke / Satirist
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Bed
Big Ideas
Century
Communism
Fascism
Ideas
Big
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Bomb
Test
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I have thought about dropping an atomic bomb on Sydney but I wouldn't gain anything from it.
Damir Dokic /
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World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
Stephen Ambrose / Historian
War
Atomic Bomb
Cold
Cold War
Hard
Hydrogen Bomb
Made
Optimism
World War Ii
American
War World Cold War
Atomic
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Continue
World War
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The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
Herbert Hoover / 31St U.s. President
Women
Atomic Bomb
Children
Hydrogen Bomb
My Soul
Soul
Use
Atomic
Bomb
Indiscriminate
Revolts
Women And Children
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One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.
Marcel Pagnol /
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Engineers
Machines
Sewing
Begin
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Bomb
Look
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My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.
Philip Morrison /
New York
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Cities
Description
New York City
Pieces
Single
World City New
Atomic
Bomb
City
Effect
None
Piece
York
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Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.
Albert Einstein / Theoretical Physicist
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Succeed
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When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.
Harry S. Truman / 33Rd U.s. President
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Beast
Hiroshima And Nagasaki
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As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, "they can't leave anything alone."
Quentin Crisp / Writer
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Bangs
Bombs
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Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.
Janet Fitch / Author
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Verbs
Atomic
Bomb
Describe
Explosion
Stocking
Twenty
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The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.
Bertrand Russell / Philosopher
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Genius
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The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.
Marshall Mcluhan / Philosopher
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Messages
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Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.
Graham Hawkes / Marine Engineer
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Collapse
Gone
Hull
Sound
Speed
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Bomb
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I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.
Issey Miyake / Fashion Designer
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Avoided
Designer
Hiroshima
Survived
Atomic
Bomb
Labelled
Therefore
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I remember when John Cameron Swayze over the television told me personally that the Russians now had the atomic bomb; then I knew that we were goners.
George A. Romero / Film Director
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Cameron
Remember When
Television
Atomic
Bomb
Russians
John
Personally
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I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
Albert Einstein / Theoretical Physicist
Inspirational
Love
Life
Future
Atomic Bomb
Civilization
War Believe People
Atomic
Bomb
Fought
Perhaps
Two-Thirds
Wiped
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How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?
Gunter Grass / Novelist
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Developing
Dropping
Hiroshima
Iran
Atomic
Bomb
Nagasaki
Prevent
Recognised
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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
J. Robert Oppenheimer / Theoretical Physicist
Change
Future
War
Atomic Bomb
Country
Different
Made
Military
Mountain
Steps
Atomic
Beyond
Bomb
Those
Few
Last
Led
Pass
Prospect
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The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
Lyndon B. Johnson / 36Th U.s. President
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Hands
Most Powerful
Powerful
Sky
Weapons
Atomic
Bomb
Certainly
Nation
Controls
Effective
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Israel is in the grip of a ghetto mentality. We have a powerful army. We have the atomic bomb. But the psychology of what comes out of Israel has the tone of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Daniel Barenboim / Pianist
Army
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Ghetto
Mentality
Psychology
Tone
Warsaw
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Bomb
Grip
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'Hibakusha' is an animated docu-drama that Choz Belen and I are directing, and it will take you through the earliest memories of a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor named Kaz Suyeishi.
Steve Nguyen /
Animated
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Hiroshima
Memories
Atomic
Named
Bomb
Directing
Earliest
Earliest Memories
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I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.
Lee Iacocca / Businessman
Adviser
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Bombs
Decision
Harry Truman
Hell
Truman
Atomic
Bomb
Drop
Harry
Save
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The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.
Tom Waits / Singer-Songwriter
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Islands
Sight
Two
Atomic
Bikini
Bomb
Explosive
Island
Hence
Marshall
Minimal
Naming
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Second point is no one here could predict or know that Israel was involved or started producing the hydrogen bomb - the most advanced and powerful atomic bomb that can kill millions of people.
Mordechai Vanunu / Technician
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Hydrogen
Hydrogen Bomb
Israel
Millions
Powerful
Predict
Advanced
Atomic
Bomb
Millions Of People
Producing
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When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
J. Robert Oppenheimer / Theoretical Physicist
History
Atomic Bomb
Bombs
Sweet
Had
After
Ahead
Argue
Atomic
Bomb
See
Technical
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Active-shooter scenarios have become part of the education lexicon. I had fire drills. My parents had duck and cover - nuclear and atomic bomb drills. Kids today grow up with this idea that this could happen at any point in time.
Keith Maitland /
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Drills
Nuclear
Scenarios
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Bomb
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Duck
Grow Up
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We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another.
Henry L. Stimson / Former Governor-General Of The Philippines
Morning
Space
Atomic Bomb
Blow
Fallen
Heavy
News
Successful
Succession
Atomic
Blows
Bomb
Drop
Japanese
Intend
Nagasaki
Quick
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In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.
Wilfred Burchett / Journalist
War
Atomic Bomb
Damage
Desolation
Eden
Four
Frightening
Greater
Islands
Pacific
Terrible
Testing
Years
Atomic
Show
Bomb
Photographs
Far
Island
Seem
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The cumulative amount of man-made global pollution that's in the atmosphere now traps as much extra heat energy every day as would be released by 400,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every day. It's a big planet, but that's an awful lot of energy.
Al Gore / Former Vice President Of The United States
Atmosphere
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Energy
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Weapons of mass destruction are the greatest threat to life on earth. Biological weapons are often called the poor man's atomic bomb. Saddam Hussein is the ruler who has for decades been making the most determined and diabolical illegal effort to acquire them.
William Shawcross / Writer
Acquire
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Biological Weapons
Decades
Destruction
Determined
Diabolical
Earth
Hussein
Illegal
Mass
Mass Destruction
Poor
Saddam
Threat
Weapons
Greatest
Atomic
Biological
Bomb
Often
Greatest Threat
Making
Ruler
Saddam Hussein
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In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen.
Annie Jacobsen /
Airplane
Arms
Arms Race
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Crash
Decided
Defense
Department
Disaster
Likes
Race
Soil
Atomic
Bomb
Radioactive
Swing
Transporting
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I grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, which is my hometown. In Los Alamos is, for people who don't know, a nuclear lab that built the atomic bomb. The only reason the town exists is to make nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, and that's still happening there.
Drew Goddard / Television Screenwriter
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Built
Destruction
Grew
Hometown
Mass
Mass Destruction
Mexico
New Mexico
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Reason
Weapons
People New Know
Atomic
Bomb
Exists
Still
Happening
Lab
Los
Town
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When I first met the survivors of the Indianapolis in 1999 while writing a book about them, their story - the last major action of World War II - was rarely mentioned in high school textbooks. This is despite the fact that, before its torpedoing, the ship had delivered components of the atomic bomb Little Boy to Tinian Island.
Doug Stanton / Author
Action
Atomic Bomb
Components
Despite
High School
Textbooks
World War Ii
Boy
Atomic
Bomb
Delivered
Island
Major
Mentioned
Met
Rarely
Ship
Survivors
World War
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To understand how black projects began, and how they continue to function today, one must start with the creation of the atomic bomb. The men who ran the Manhattan Project wrote the rules about black operations. The atomic bomb was the mother of all black projects, and it is the parent from which all black operations have sprung.
Annie Jacobsen /
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Creation
Function
Manhattan
Operations
Parent
Projects
Ran
Sprung
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The German physicists knew at least so much about the manufacture and construction of atomic bombs that it was clear to them that the manufacture of bombs in Germany could not succeed during the war. For this reason, they were spared the moral decision whether they should make an atomic bomb, and they had only worked on the uranium engine.
Werner Heisenberg / Physicist
Atomic Bomb
Construction
Germany
Succeed
Uranium
German
Atomic
Bomb
Engine
Manufacture
Physicists
Spared
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