Quotes about nuclear energy and nuclear weapons

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.

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

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 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.

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