Now we are all sons of bitches.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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