“Our planet consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb. Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.” LongStillsBodyFallThreeEnergyStarsMillionsFireMinutesEventsPlanetsTinyBombsAtomsFierceLong AgoOur PlanetFractionsUnstableLumpsHydrogenHydrogen Bomb Author:James Lovelock
“The increase in the amount of heat in the oceans amounts to 17 x 10^22 Joules over the last 30 years. That is so much energy it is equivalent to exploding a Hiroshima bomb every second in the ocean for thirty years.” YearsLastsEnergyAmountOceanIncreaseHeatThirtyBombsThirty YearsEvery SecondExplodingHiroshima Author:Stefan Rahmstorf
“I happened to read recently a remark by the American nuclear physicist W. Davidson, who noted that the explosion of one hydrogen bomb releases a greater amount of energy than all the explosions set off by all countries in all wars known in the entire history of mankind. And he, apparently, is right.” WarCountryEnergyKnownGreaterHappenedMankindAmountNuclearReleaseBombsPhysicistRemarksExplosionsHydrogenHydrogen Bomb Author:Nikita Khrushchev
“To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair.” WarEnergyPeaceTermTalkingBombsChairsElectricElectricityAtomic BombAtomic EnergyElectric Chair Author:Pyotr Kapitsa
“The most fearful phenomenon of these midcentury years is not the atom bomb; atomic energy does have its constructive possibilities.... The most fearful event of these times is the colossal expansion of the government of the United States and the constant increase of executive power within the government.” YearsDoeStatesGovernmentAmericaEnergyUnitedUnited StatesEventsPossibilityIncreaseConstantBombsExecutivesPhenomenonAtomsFearfulExpansionConstructiveColossalAtom BombAtomic EnergyExecutive Power Author:Wheeler McMillen