I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

I am become death-the shatterer of worlds.

Stick by your guns, but don't fire.

A weapon is an enemy even to its owner.

Never give a child a sword.

Son, never pick up a gun unless you're starving, you or some of your kin ... Unless somebody you love is hungry.

We knew the world would not be the same.

As the bomb fell over Hiroshima and exploded, we saw an entire city disappear. I wrote in my log the words: My God, what have we done?

In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear.

A bayonet is a weapon with a worker at both ends.

Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun.

Only technology has permitted us to put a city to the sword without quite realizing what we are doing.

At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.

You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter but with guns.

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.

Now we are all sons of bitches.