Arrogance combined with stubbornness is a ticking bomb.
After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.
The bombs were coming-and so was I.
With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.
You can't bomb a people just in case.
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs.
I really love it in Belfast. I always stay in the most bombed hotel, the Europa!
You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.
Kei: Amoebas don't make motorcycles and atomic bombs!
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...The world's benefactor has no choice; he is the surgeon who wields the healing scalpel. He does not want the violence, but the reality (which he has invented) drives him to use violence, in a way, against his will. Throwing a bomb into a crowded d...
Dear, Missus, Mister - I beg you never to give thoughts to war, in no way, not to work for it, not by writing nor by reading about it nor by looking at the pictures nor on the television about it. Not in any way ever, at all. Not by being a soldier, ...
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