Nuclear Quotes

“Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word "nuclear.”
― T. Rafael Cimino, Mid Ocean

“What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

“People who worry that nuclear weaponry will one day fall in the hands of the Arabs, fail to realize that the Islamic bomb has been dropped already, it fell the day MUHAMMED (pbuh) was born.”
― - Dr. Joseph Adam Pearson.

“It's called the Infinity Effect.”
― Edward M. Wolfe, In the End

“That’s the thing about the collapse of civilization, Blake. It never happens according to plan – there’s no slavering horde of zombies. No actinic flash of thermonuclear war. No Earth-shuddering asteroid. The end comes in unforeseen ways; the stock market collapses, and then the banks, and then there is no food in the supermarkets, or the communications system goes down completely and inevitably, and previously amiable co-workers find themselves wrestling over the last remaining cookie that someone brought in before all the madness began.”
― Mark A. Rayner, The Fridgularity

“I am an atheist.”
― Hans A. Bethe, The Voice Of Genius: Conversations With Nobel Scientists And Other Luminaries

“Sobre você me nuclearei em meu cristal mais supersimétrico.”
― Filipe Russo, Caro Jovem Adulto

“There was, apparently, a nuclear reactor at a place called Indian Point, just thirty miles away in Westchester County. If something bad happened there, we were constantly being informed, the 'radioactive debris', whatever this might be, was liable to rain down on us. (Indian Point: the earliest, most incurable apprehensions stirred in its very name.) Then there was the question of dirty bombs. Apparently any fool could build a dirty bomb and explode it in Manhattan. How likely was this? Nobody knew. Very little about anything seemed intelligible or certain, and New York itself - that ideal source of the metropolitan diversion that serves as a response to the largest futilities - took on a fearsome, monstrous nature whose reality might have befuddled Plato himself. We were trying, as I irreverently analysed it, to avoid what might be termed a historic mistake. We were trying to understand, that is, whether we were in a pre-apocalyptic situation, like the European Jews in the thirties or the last citizens of Pompeii, or whether our situation was merely near-apocalyptic, like that of the Cold War inhabitants of New York, London, Washington and, for that matter, Moscow. In my anxiety I phoned Rachel's father, Charles Bolton, and asked him how he'd dealt with the threat of nuclear annihilation. I wanted to believe that this episode of history, like those old cataclysms that deposit a geologically telling layer of dust on the floors of seas, had sooted its survivors with special information.”
― Joseph O'Neill, Netherland

“2. Humanity & Peace -
2.09 THE NUCLEAR QUESTION
Any act against the constitution,
Must be declared to be but void,
But atomic acts against humanity,
Are the strength to be but tried.
[22] - 2

The future of any of the countries,
Does lie way above its people,
And the future of humanity -
On numerous BOMBS so ample.
[23] - 2”
― Munindra (Munnan) Misra, Eddies of Life

“It does not seem ever to have been satisfactorily answered why the two first operational atomic bombs were used—against the strongly voiced wishes of the leading physicists responsible for developing them—to destroy two cities instead of being deployed in the equivalent of spectacularly shooting out candles.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

“When Iran starts to regulate USA nuclear facilities, it will be a step in the right direction for the safety and security of 300 million people.”
― Steven Magee

“One of my friends compared me to Bruce Banner, due to my work with radiation and human health. So I looked up Bruce Banner and this is what I found: Banner, a physicist, is sarcastic and seemingly very self-assured when he first appears in Incredible Hulk #1, but is also emotionally withdrawn in most fashions...Banner is considered one of the greatest scientific minds on Earth, possessing "a mind so brilliant it cannot be measured on any known intelligence test." He holds expertise in biology, chemistry, engineering, physiology, and nuclear physics.”
― Steven Magee

“The Fukushima nuclear complex went on to become the worst man-made engineering disaster in all of human history, outside of war.”
― Steven Magee, Health Forensics

“We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security - and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use”
― Mohamed ElBaradei