Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom, there is no evil in the atom; only in mens souls.

We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves but the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.

It is impossible, except for theologians, to conceive of a world-wide scandal or a universe-wide scandal; the proof of this is the way people have settled down to living with nuclear fission, radiation poisoning, hydrogen bombs, satellites, and space rockets.

We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

We will not act prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of world-wide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth. But neither will we shrink from that risk at any time it must be faced.

The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will possess nuclear or even thermonuclear weapons.

Scorching winds howled around us, whipping dust and ashes into our eyes and up our noses. Our mouths became dry, our throats raw and sore from the biting smoke pulled into our lungs. Coughing was uncontrollable.

At Hiroshima, on the bright clear morning of August 6, 1945, thousands were killed, more thousands were fatally injured, and the homes of a quarter million people were destroyed, within seconds of the falling of a single bomb.

After the great destructions Everyone will prove that he was innocent.

The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

Gods are born and die, but the atom endures.

John F. Kennedy:] Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring down an adversary to the choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of mans adjustment to it-the speed of his acceptance. Already bombproofing is on approximately the same level as mothproofing.

The H-bomb rather favors small nations that doesn't as yet possess it; they feel slightly more free to jostle other nations, having discovered that a country can stick its tongue out quite far these days without provoking war, so horrible are war's consequences.

Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!