Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.
Humanity, Gun-ControlAlbert EinsteinI do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth - rocks!
Gun-Control, World War IIIAlbert EinsteinThe release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert EinsteinThe unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparallel catastrophe.
Science, AtomsAlbert EinsteinThe only thing that will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons is regime change in Tehran.
IranJohn Bolton, November 2009As 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.
Gun-ControlMikhail GorbachevPast thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars.
WarAlbert EinsteinIf we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this?
Werner HeisenbergIf 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."
1986Valery Legasov in Chernobyl, Episode 3You 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.
Watchmen - Die Wächter, by The ComedianI am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
Robert OppenheimerThe 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.
Robert OppenheimerThe nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.
War, Gun-ControlCarl SaganThe 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.
War, Gun-ControlJohn F. Kennedy, Inaugural AddressI 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.