History Quotes / AtomicHate

->''"It worked."''

->"The water in this plant is a lot more than 'essential to the war effort,' Lieutenant. [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Your people]] are creating a monster, right here, in this building! Do you understand?"

->''"It worked".''

-->-- '''Ken Bainbridge''', test director of the first atomic explosion.

->'''TheNarrator:''' Man and woman, boy and girl, the survivors prepared to defend [[UsefulNotes/{{Japan}} their homeland]], to drive the invaders back into the sea with wooden rifles, bows and arrows, bamboo spears. But the end, when it came, was to be from the sky. [[DeusExNukina Irresistible]]... [[OutsideContextProblem unimaginable]]... mushroom-shaped.

->"Now listen, [[Literature/MikeHammer Mike]]. Listen carefully. I'm going to pronounce a few words. They're harmless words. Just a bunch of letters scrambled together. But their meaning is very important. Try to understand what they mean. "Manhattan Project, Los Alamos, Trinity."

-->-- '''Einstein's Monsters, Introduction'''

-->-- "Merry Little Minuet" by Sheldon Harnick

-->-- ''The World At War''

->''"The world is set on a major collision course with disaster, and it's going to strike probably [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp around the end of the century or just after]]. We may very well see, if it goes to nuclear war in the Northern hemisphere which is likely, that hemisphere made virtually uninhabitable for some time. Well a lot of people say, well you know this is the end of the world -- I don't believe this is so. And I think that Australia will have a much better chance than most other places of coming through successfully. But, we will in such a situation clearly be like the one lifeboat from the big liner that is sunk and it's full, and all around in the water are many, many people trying to clamber on board and if you let them you all sink. You've got to just batter them off, keep them away, and [[ColdEquation look after your own survival]]. The only way in which we can protect ourselves I believe, is by having not machine guns and rifles, but the most sophisticated scientific weapons that we can devise. And I put nuclear weapons in that too, and anything else which will enable one man to hold off a hundred."''

-->-- What '''J. Robert Oppenheimer''' actually said, according to his brother

-->-- '''Sir Philip Baxter'''

->"The world is set on a major collision course with disaster, and it's going to strike probably [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp around the end of the century or just after]]. We may very well see, if it goes to nuclear war in the Northern hemisphere which is likely, that hemisphere made virtually uninhabitable for some time. Well a lot of people say, well you know this is the end of the world -- I don't believe this is so. And I think that Australia will have a much better chance than most other places of coming through successfully. But, we will in such a situation clearly be like the one lifeboat from the big liner that is sunk and it's full, and all around in the water are many, many people trying to clamber on board and if you let them you all sink. You've got to just batter them off, keep them away, and [[ColdEquation look after your own survival]]. The only way in which we can protect ourselves I believe, is by having not machine guns and rifles, but the most sophisticated scientific weapons that we can devise. And I put nuclear weapons in that too, and anything else which will enable one man to hold off a hundred."

->"It worked".
->--What '''J. Robert Oppenheimer''' actually said, according to his brother

->-- '''Ken Bainbridge''', test director of the first atomic explosion.

-->--'''Creator/CarlSagan''', ''Series/CosmosAPersonalVoyage''

->''But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud\\

And we will all be blown away.''

-->--'''CarlSagan''', ''{{Cosmos}}''

->''"Here, as I understand it, is how the MX is supposed to work: We would put a bunch of missiles where the Russians can’t hit them with their missiles. That way, if the Russians shoot at us, we’ll be able to shoot back, and [[KillEmAll everybody will wind up dead]]. This is considered to be much more desirable than what would happen without the MX, namely that the Russians would still be alive and we would be dead. Obviously, the best solution would be for us to be alive and the Russians to be dead, but for this to happen we would have to shoot first, and we wouldn’t do that because [[PeaceThroughSuperiorFirepower the whole reason we built all these nuclear devices in the first place is to preserve world peace]]. So we are going for the peace-loving solution, which is to guarantee that if anybody attacks anybody, everybody winds up dead."''
-->-- '''DaveBarry'''

->It worked.
->-- '''J. Robert Oppenheimer''', what he actually said, according to his brother.

->''Now we're all sons-of-bitches.''

-> ''The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.''

->''Here, as I understand it, is how the MX is supposed to work: We would put a bunch of missiles where the Russians can’t hit them with their missiles. That way, if the Russians shoot at us, we’ll be able to shoot back, and [[KillEmAll everybody will wind up dead]]. This is considered to be much more desirable than what would happen without the MX, namely that the Russians would still be alive and we would be dead. Obviously, the best solution would be for us to be alive and the Russians to be dead, but for this to happen we would have to shoot first, and we wouldn’t do that because [[PeaceThroughSuperiorFirepower the whole reason we built all these nuclear devices in the first place is to preserve world peace]]. So we are going for the peace-loving solution, which is to guarantee that if anybody attacks anybody, everybody winds up dead.''

-> The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.

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->It Worked