Quelle: Leftism Revisited (1990), p. 282
— J. G. Ballard British writer 1930 - 2009
"The End of My War", originally printed in the [London] Sunday Times (1995)
A User's Guide to the Millennium (1996)
— Leó Szilárd Physicist and biologist 1898 - 1964
"President Truman Did Not Understand" http://www.peak.org/~danneng/decision/usnews.html in U.S. News & World Report (15 August 1960)
Variant: If the Germans had dropped atomic bombs on cities instead of us, we would have defined the dropping of atomic bombs on cities as a war crime, and we would have sentenced the Germans who were guilty of this crime to death at Nuremberg and hanged them.
As quoted in The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb (1996) by Dennis Wainstock, p. 122
Kontext: Suppose Germany had developed two bombs before we had any bombs. And suppose Germany had dropped one bomb, say, on Rochester and the other on Buffalo, and then having run out of bombs she would have lost the war. Can anyone doubt that we would then have defined the dropping of atomic bombs on cities as a war crime, and that we would have sentenced the Germans who were guilty of this crime to death at Nuremberg and hanged them?
But, again, don't misunderstand me. The only conclusion we can draw is that governments acting in a crisis are guided by questions of expediency, and moral considerations are given very little weight, and that America is no different from any other nation in this respect.
— Harry Truman American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953) 1884 - 1972
Report on the Potsdam Conference (1945)
Kontext: The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians. But that attack is only a warning of things to come. If Japan does not surrender, bombs will have to be dropped on her war industries and, unfortunately, thousands of civilian lives will be lost. I urge Japanese civilians to leave industrial cities immediately, and save themselves from destruction.
— Romain Gary French writer and diplomat 1914 - 1980
As quoted in Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2003) by Tzvetan Todorov, p. 217
— Bertrand Russell logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist 1872 - 1970
Quelle: 1950s, Human Society in Ethics and Politics (1954), p. 47
Kontext: Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and one sister, should they let the human race die out? I do not know the answer, but I do not think it can be in the affirmative merely on the ground that incest is wicked.
— Kirby Page American clergyman 1890 - 1957
Now is the Time to Prevent a Third World War (1950)
— Kirby Page American clergyman 1890 - 1957
What Does God Want Us to Do About Russia? (1948)
Kontext: We Christians should urge our government to destroy all its atomic bombs, stop making any additional ones, and stop all preparations to wage war with biological weapons. Such actions would... place our government in an advantageous position to plead with all other nations to join with us in an international treaty of disarmament by as rapid stages as possible.
— Bart D. Ehrman American academic 1955
Introduction
The Triumph of Christianity (2018)
— John Hodgman, buch The Areas of My Expertise
April 25, 2006
The Areas of My Expertise (2005), Appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
— Gloria Estefan Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada 1957
comment by Frank Amadeo, president of Estefan Enterprises, Inc. (EEI), after Estefan walked across a gridlocked George Washington Bridge in New York City to appear at a book signing in Ridgeway, New Jersey -- where she was greeted by 1,000 fans
2007, 2008
— Ozzy Osbourne English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter 1948
Thank God for the Bomb written by Robert John Daisley, Ozzy Osbourne, John Osbourne, Jake Williams, Robert Daisley
Song lyrics, The Ultimate Sin (1986)
— Harry Truman American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953) 1884 - 1972
Announcing the Bombing of Hiroshima (1945)
Kontext: Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British "Grand Slam" which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare.
The Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor. They have been repaid many fold. And the end is not yet.
— Winston S. Churchill, buch The Second World War
Conversation with his doctor, Lord Moran (23 July 1945), quoted in Lord Moran, Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965 (London: Sphere, 1968), p. 305
The Second World War (1939–1945)
— Kurt Vonnegut American writer 1922 - 2007
I Love You, Madame Librarian (2004)
— Thomas Hardy English novelist and poet 1840 - 1928
Quelle: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
— Chester W. Nimitz United States Navy fleet admiral 1885 - 1966
Public statement quoted in The New York Times (6 October 1945) and in The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (1996) by Gar Alperovitz <!-- p. 329 -->
Kontext: The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace before the atomic age was announced to the world with the destruction of Hiroshima and before the Russian entry into war.... The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military standpoint, in the defeat of Japan.
— Wilm Hosenfeld Righteous Among the Nations 1895 - 1952
Szpilman, The Pianist, page 193. Diary entry, 18 January 1942.
— Fidel Castro former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba 1926 - 2016
Speech (25 November 1994) http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1994/esp/f251194e.html
— H. G. Wells, buch The World Set Free
The World Set Free (1913)
Kontext: The atomic bomb had dwarfed the international issues to complete insignificance. When our minds wandered from the preoccupations of our immediate needs, we speculated upon the possibility of stopping the use of these frightful explosives before the world was utterly destroyed. For to us it seemed quite plain that these bombs and the still greater power of destruction of which they were the precursors might quite easily shatter every relationship and institution of mankind... war must end and that the only way to end war was to have but one government for mankind.
— Agatha Christie English mystery and detective writer 1890 - 1976
Quelle: Curtain - Poirot's Last Case (1975), chapter 5
