"The bomb provided the non-military Japanese leadership with an excuse to proclaim defeat that didn't involve blaming or shaming their proud military."
"This wasn't a true story; it's from a piece of short fiction called 'Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed' written by Ray Bradbury in 1949."
"On August 6th, 1945, America Dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan in the city of Hiroshima, destroying over two-thirds of the city."
"The early work on the atomic bomb took place right here, in Pupin Physics Hall, Columbia University."
"I made one great mistake in my life... when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification - the danger that the Germans would make them."
"Being the father of the atomic bomb has proven to be a double-edged sword."
"The first atomic bomb named the gadget was dropped on July 16, 1945, in a desert in New Mexico."
"The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki changed the nature of warfare forever."
"Total defeat in the coming months was certain when the atomic bomb, saving far more lives than the lives they took, compelled surrender now."
"Albert Einstein never created an atomic bomb...he actually was one of the figureheads."
"As most of us know, on August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. This was devastating to the city, and of course, we can understand the implications of this."
"The Second World War would topple these numbers and end with one of the deadliest inventions in human history when the US dropped the newly developed atom bomb over Japan."
"When it went off in the New Mexico dawn, that first atomic bomb, we thought of Alfred Nobel and his hope-- his vain hope that dynamite would put an end to wars."
"The atom bomb is in many ways the most extraordinary example of factory production."
"the atomic weapons were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki which devastated the regions"
"When the American atomic bomb was detonated over Hiroshima on the 6th of August, many in the Japanese leadership realized that the war was now lost."
"This movie post-war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb."
"...let's stop fooling around with this atomic bomb... start being sane about this whole matter."
"I cannot help feeling choked with emotion at the fact that just two atomic bomb claimed more than 200,000 lives and seeing people who still suffer from the aftereffects of radiation over 60 years after the bombings."
"Physicist Robert Oppenheimer, upon witnessing the first successful test of an atomic bomb, recalled, 'Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.'"
"The Japanese don't know what's hit them. The first indication that Hiroshima has been hit by something unprecedented is when it goes off."
"I see it as this like atomic bomb in the middle of ecumenical relations."
"In July 16, 1945, at the Trinity test site in Alamogordo, New Mexico, the team successfully detonated the world's first atomic bomb."
"The use of the atomic bomb Truman excuse me Burns's personal assistant also said as soon as they got the news the phrase he used was I watched Burns and Truman hit the bourbon bottle very hard."
"Using atomic bombs against Japan is one of the greatest blunders of history."
"The dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki marked the beginning of a new period of artistic exploration for Dali."
"And that's how a lot of tiny explosions work together to make the gigantic explosion of an atomic bomb, the deadliest weapon known to man."
"The atomic bomb was a lot more humane than the firebombing."
"The code name for the plan to develop an atomic bomb during World War II was the Manhattan Project."
"The history of the atomic bomb's creation, usage, and stockpiling has been a source of never-ending controversy among historians."
"Oh, just give me a little atomic bomb, not too much, just a little."
"I opened the safe that contained behind it the secret of the atomic bomb."
"The atom bomb was not worth it, just simply was not."
"This is actually Hiroshima in Japan, which really shows the destruction of atomic bombs."
"It offered profound insight into the devastating impact of the atomic bomb, which truly was a powerful message on the importance of peace."
"This was an absolutely fantastic idea, not merely to make a bomb but to make it out of an element that had never existed before."
"The problem: make a chain reaction to make plutonium, to make a bomb, to end the war."
"The atomic bomb was the speediest way of ending this carnage."
"What if the race to build the world’s first atomic bomb was closer than we thought?"
"It should have a similar urgency to the atomic bomb and the Manhattan Project."
"If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things."
"The Trinity Site, where the world's first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, changed the direction of human history."
"As late as 1945, Fleet Admiral Leahy said that an atomic bomb could never be built."
"Japan's conquering of land in Asia led to the United States dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima."
"This led to the decision to drop the atomic bomb to prevent any more American lives from being lost."
"The author's purpose for writing this document is likely to explain the negative effects of the atomic bomb."
"Somebody once said to me that the bomb was the worst thing that ever happened."
"It was immoral and a crime against God and humanity."
"Dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima shows the enduring issue of human rights violations."
"The energy that is released is comparable to the atomic bomb that was used on Hiroshima."
"The atomic bomb was established via the Manhattan Project, a $2 billion project to build the atomic bomb."