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Quotes About Bomb

Oppenheimer argued that concealing information about the bomb increased the danger of misunderstandings
~ Kai Bird
Trinity," the test on July 16, 1945, of the first atomic bomb.
~ Kai Bird
atomic diplomacy against the Soviet Union was a factor in President Truman's decision to use the bomb against a Japanese enemy that appeared to be defeated militarily.
~ Kai Bird
Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off.
~ Mitch Kapor
The real renegade is the man who has lost faith in his fellowman. Today the loss of faith is universal. Here God himself is powerless. We have put our faith in the bomb, and it is the bomb, which will answer our prayers [...] it takes time for doom to spread throughout the corpus of civilization. But when Rimbaud walked out the back door, doom had already announced itself.
~ Henry Miller
Now we shall have a vessel in which to pour the vital fluid, a bomb which, when we throw it, will set off the world.
~ Henry Miller
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
~ Stephen Ambrose
Authority meant nothing to these people, White thought, nor did the spirit of the season. If they were capable of sneaking a bomb into a police station and exploding the device during the holiest season of the year, they were capable of most anything. Now
~ Stephen Puleo
I would love for Hillary's [Clinton] massive ad campaign to be pointless and worthless. I would love for it to bomb out.
~ Rush Limbaugh
A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex working parts. Only engineers understand bombs
~ Bruce Sterling
Artists in Times of War The Bomb Disobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies on Law
~ Howard Zinn
She seemed to Bond to give a quick involuntary shrug of the shoulders as she spoke, but then she leant impulsively towards him. 'I have some news for you from Mathis. He was longing to tell you himself. It's about the bomb. It's a fantastic story.
~ Ian Fleming
Now, at the Eldorado, for instance, and the Eden (where a homemade bomb went off, wounding three guests, ten minutes after we had left)
~ Ian Fleming
Dali blinked at me. Would you mind making coffee while you're dancing? I smell it on the bottom shelf, either first or second jar on the left. I opened the first jar and looked inside. Coffee. The label said BORAX. What's up with the labels? Dali shrugged. You're in the house of a cat whose job is to spy. He thinks he's clever. I'd be careful with the silverware drawer. There might be a bomb in it.
~ Ilona Andrews
Nobody, absolutely nobody, straps a bomb on their body because they were recruited from the Internet. It takes an enormous amount of personal face-to-face contact and time in order to recruit a young person into the cause of jihad.
~ Reza Aslan
On Sept. 20, 2011, a year after I spoke with Rabanni, a couple of Taliban emissaries arrived at his Kabul fortress with a gift for his 71st birthday. It turned out not to be the truce offering they had claimed they were bringing: one of the Talibs had a bomb hidden in his turban.
~ Terry Glavin
Israeli government & the neocons want US to bomb Iran.
~ Ron Paul
Oh, claro Vietnam, si cae la bomba sobre el mar lleva tu árbol y tu escudo hasta la puerta del país. Ciérrala firme. (de En El País de Vietnam)
~ Nancy Morejón
Richard Rhodes's exceptionally readable The Making of the Atomic Bomb is the place to start. This sweeping chronicle of the difficult and sobering history of the endeavor called the Manhattan Project is marked by Rhodes's insightful studies of the complicated people who were most involved in the creation of the bomb, from Niels Bohr to Robert Oppenheimer. Rhodes followed this book with Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb.
~ Nancy Pearl
Este mundo no se morirá de una bomba atómica como dicen los diarios, se morirá de risa, de banalidad, haciendo un chiste de todo, y además un chiste malo." ? Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafóm
Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that." Professor
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon