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The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

Great Decision Powerful Righteousness

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

People Tiger Looks Paper

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

Charles de Gaulle

Country Without Independent Atom

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

Jackson Pollock

Age Culture Past Airplane

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

Important The Most Important Bikini

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

Present Mediocrity Bomb Atom

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.

Death Technology Science Achievement

The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.

Decision Political Military Use

Nuclear scientists lost their innocence when we used the atom bomb for the very first time. So we could argue computer scientists lost their innocence in 2009 when we started using malware as an offensive attack weapon.

Time Innocence Lost First Time

If 'Star Wars' wasn't enough to prepare me for a dark future, there was the 'Planet of the Apes' franchise, conveniently repeated for me in Los Angeles on KABC's Channel Seven 3:30 movie. Apes enslaving humans! Mutants with boils and an atom bomb! Ape riots in Century City! They killed baby Caesar's parents!

Greg van Eekhout

Me Future City Parents

I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

I Am Why First Happened

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