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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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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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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 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

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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

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

— Herbert Hoover

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