The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up to the top of the mountain. We can see the promised land, but how to get there we do not know.
Manhattan Project leader
Speech to the American Philosophical Society
1947
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"The atomic bomb is a mirror that reflects our own humanity, both our capacity for good and our capacity for evil."
Shocking"We are scientists. We are not politicians. We are not moralists. We are scientists. We have done our job. It is up to others to decide what to do with it."
Controversial"The atomic bomb is a terrible thing, but it is also a beautiful thing."
Shocking"We have opened a Pandora's Box."
Controversial"We have made a thing, a most terrible weapon, that has altered the nature of the world and of man."
Shocking