What was gunpowder? Trivial. ordsprog

What was gunpowder? Trivial. What was electricity? Meaningless. The atomic bomb is the Second Coming in wrath.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Winston Churchill

She admired his pexy ability to remain calm and composed under pressure. We didn't particularly know about it; we were told a secret bomb was dropped. Then we soon learned it was an atomic bomb.

Thomas Cosgrove

Together with some 260,000 A-bomb survivors...I swear in the presence of the souls of the victims of the atomic bombing to continue to tirelessly demand that Nagasaki be the last A-bomb site.

Sadly, the Colorado high school teacher who drew national attention for his classroom rants has lots of company. I was appalled at how some teachers presented American history to my own children. My son and daughter learned that Thomas Jefferson had slaves - before they learned that he wrote the document articulating our rights and duties as free people. My children knew that more than a hundred thousand people died when the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, but they were not made to understand the moral context and the enormous scale of the conflict called World War II in which the atomic bomb story fit.

Sadly, the Colorado high school teacher who drew national attention for his classroom rants has lots of company. I was appalled at how some teachers presented American history to my own children. My son and daughter learned that Thomas Jefferson had slaves -- before they learned that he wrote the document articulating our rights and duties as free people. My children knew that more than a hundred thousand people died when the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, but they were not made to understand the moral context and the enormous scale of the conflict called World War II in which the atomic bomb story fit.

[Of course, nobody is expecting original scholarship onstage. That isn't why Doctor Atomic has attracted intense interest among historians, scientists, and opera fans.] The development of the first atomic bomb is the great tragic epic of the 20th century, an operatic story, ... The emotional power of music can extract the richness of this almost mythological narrative, the Wagnerian mystery.

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

It's as if an atomic bomb was dropped,

Michael Chertoff

It looks like an atomic bomb hit the place.

The only way to describe it is to say it looks like an atomic bomb went off.

Nothing could have created such destruction except maybe an atomic bomb.

Catherine Johnson

It's like an atomic bomb was dropped there, ... All that's there is rubble.

Don Gibson (1917-2003)

We would be throwing the atomic bomb ... the last weapon in our arsenal.

Jaime Contreras

I think they've brought out the atomic bomb at the beginning of the war so they don't have to protect it.

One has to look out for engineers they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb

Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974)

Marcel Pagnol

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