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The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.

Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.

There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.

In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.

Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.

The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.