Quotes about nuclear energy and nuclear weapons

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth - rocks!

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparallel catastrophe.

The only thing that will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons is regime change in Tehran.

As long as weapons of mass destruction exist, primarily nuclear weapons, the danger is colossal. All nations should declare... that nuclear weapons must be destroyed. This is to save ourselves and our planet.

Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars.

If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this?

If you mean when will Chernobyl be completly save - the half-life of Plutonium 239 is 24,000 years. Perhaps we should just say, "not in our lifetimes."

The accident is well under control.

You know, mankind's been trying to kill each other off since the beginning of time; now, we finally have the power to finish the job.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

What if Einstein's parents had held him back? We wouldn't even have the... - I was gonna say "atomic bomb", but there's probably a better example.

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

The world is very very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table.
I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.