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A stands for atom; it is so small
No one has ever seen it at all.
B stands for bombs; the bombs are much bigger.
So, brother, do not be too fast on the trigger.
F stands for fission; that is what things do
When they get wobbly and big and must split in two.
And just to confound the atomic confusion
What fission has done may be undone by fusion.
H has become a most ominous letter;
It means something bigger, if not something better.
S stands for secret; you can keep it forever —
Provided there’s no one abroad who is clever.
Edward Teller (1908-2003) Hungarian-American theoretical physicist
“Atom Alphabet,”
Alamogordo Daily News (14 Nov 1957)
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Added on 20-Apr-21 | Last updated 20-Apr-21
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Topics: alphabet, atomic bomb, nuclear, secret, thermonuclear
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Person after person has said to me in these last few days that this new world we face terrifies them. I can understand how that feeling would arise unless one believes that men are capable of greatness beyond their past achievements. … The time now calls for mankind as a whole to rise to great heights. We must have faith or we die.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
“My Day” (10 Aug 1945)
After the dropping of the atomic bomb.
Added on 18-Mar-15 | Last updated 18-Mar-15
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Topics: atomic, change, change or die, evolve, future, improve, new world, nuclear, rise, war
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I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth — rocks!
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
Interview with Alfred Werner,
Liberal Judaism (April-May 1949)
Added on 20-May-14 | Last updated 20-May-14
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Topics: atomic, defense, nuclear, war, weapons
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Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the desert bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech, Hartford, Connecticut (18 Sep 1952)
Added on 24-Aug-09 | Last updated 25-Nov-14
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Topics: agency, atom, atomic, evil, humanity, morality, natural, nature, nuclear
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Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) German-American psychologist, writer
Man’s Search for Meaning (1959)
Added on 1-Feb-04 | Last updated 21-Dec-17
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Topics: atomic bomb, Holocaust, humanity, inhumanity, nuclear, war
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