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Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs. ↗

— Tom Udall

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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

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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

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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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The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb. ↗

— Mordechai Vanunu

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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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