Report on the Potsdam Conference (1945)
Kontext: The atomic bomb is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless world. That is why Great Britain, Canada, and the United States, who have the secret of its production, do not intend to reveal that secret until means have been found to control the bomb so as to protect ourselves and the rest of the world from the danger of total destruction.
— Karl Dönitz President of Germany; admiral in command of German submarine forces during World War II 1891 - 1980
To Leon Goldensohn, July 14, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.
— 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.
— Benjamin Creme artist, author, esotericist 1922 - 2016
The Awakening of Humanity (2008)
— Hugo Chávez 48th President of Venezuela 1954 - 2013
Responding to President George W. Bush remarks on Iran, November 21, 2007 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-chavez-bush/chavez-says-bush-belongs-in-asylum-for-ww3-comment-idUSL2062324220071120
2007
— Harry Truman American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953) 1884 - 1972
Announcing the Bombing of Hiroshima (1945)
— L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics
Dianetics (1952).
— 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.
— Sam Manekshaw First Field marshal of the Indian Army 1914 - 2008
An Interview With The Field Marshal - Apr 03, 2016, https://swarajyamag.com/from-the-archives/an-interview-with-the-field-marshal
— Robert Oppenheimer American theoretical physicist and professor of physics 1904 - 1967
Acceptance Speech, Army-Navy "Excellence" Award (16 November 1945)
Kontext: It is with appreciation and gratefulness that I accept from you this scroll for the Los Alamos Laboratory, and for the men and women whose work and whose hearts have made it. It is our hope that in years to come we may look at the scroll and all that it signifies, with pride. Today that pride must be tempered by a profound concern. If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of the nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and Hiroshima. The people of this world must unite or they will perish. This war that has ravaged so much of the earth, has written these words. The atomic bomb has spelled them out for all men to understand. Other men have spoken them in other times, and of other wars, of other weapons. They have not prevailed. There are some misled by a false sense of human history, who hold that they will not prevail today. It is not for us to believe that. By our minds we are committed, committed to a world united, before the common peril, in law and in humanity.
— Yehudi Menuhin American violinist and conductor 1916 - 1999
Quelle: Sushama Londhe A Tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and Wisdom Spanning Continents and Time about India and Her Culture http://books.google.co.in/books?id=G3AMAQAAMAAJ, Pragun Publications, 2008, p. 341
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
"Only Then Shall We Find Courage", New York Times Magazine (23 June 1946).
1940s
— John R. Platt American physicist 1918 - 1992
John R. Piatt (1969) in: New York Times, September 2, 1969.
— Werner Erhard Critical Thinker and Author 1935
[176, Larson's Book of World Religions and Alternative Spirituality, Bob Larson, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2004, 084236417X]
Attributed
— Stephen Vincent Benét poet, short story writer, novelist 1898 - 1943
Innkeeper's wife
A Child is Born (1942)
Kontext: Something begins, begins;
Starlit and sunlit, something walks abroad
In flesh and spirit and fire.
Something is loosed to change the shaken world.
— Maxwell D. Taylor United States general 1901 - 1987
Quelle: The Uncertain Trumpet (1960), p. 12
— Michael Franti American rapper 1966
Bomb the World, Everyone Deserves Music (2003)
— Sukarno first President of the Republic of Indonesia 1901 - 1970
Speech at the Opening of the Bandung Conference
— Dwight D. Eisenhower American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961) 1890 - 1969
1950s, Atoms for Peace (1953)
— Hassan Rouhani 7th President of Islamic Republic of Iran 1948
Discussing how Iran could one day present the world with a nuclear fait accompli, like Pakistan and Brazil did
2004 speech to the Supreme Cultural Revolution Council
— Angela Merkel Chancellor of Germany 1954
Nicht die Welt muss dem Iran nachweisen, dass er eine Bombe baut, sondern der Iran muss die Welt überzeugen, dass er die Atombombe nicht will.
At the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, 2007
2007
