Richard Rhodes

The atom bomb was no ‘great decision.’ It was used in the war, and for your information, there were more people killed by fire bombs in Tokyo than dropping of the atomic bombs accounted for. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

The Manhattan Project was a multinational enterprise. There were Britons, Canadians, Australians, and New Zealanders, as well as French and German scientists who had fled Hitler.

The bombs that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, were the first and last use of atomic weapons in war. The explosions killed 200,000 people, mostly civilians.

The bomb changed everything except our way of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Oppenheimer was a man of many contradictions. He could be a person of great compassion and yet make decisions that would ultimately result in the deaths of thousands.

The scientists were like sorcerers, invoking supernatural forces to do their bidding.

The creation of the atomic bomb was a triumph of human intellect, but also a tragedy of human spirit.

The bomb was both a product of science and a weapon of war, a fusion that would forever change the world.

The race to build the atomic bomb was as much a contest of minds as it was a race against time.

The atomic bomb revealed the darkest capabilities of human innovation, but also the potential for unparalleled destruction.

The physicists were like gods, unraveling the mysteries of the universe with their equations and experiments.

The bomb was a manifestation of human curiosity and the relentless pursuit of power.