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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

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Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime. ↗

— George Wald

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The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. ↗

— George Wald

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Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

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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

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World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people. ↗

— Harry Browne

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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

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Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

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The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

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