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• This is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The (atom) bomb will never go off and I speak as an expert of explosives.
  -- Admiral Leahy, US Navy, June 1945...
• We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids?
  -- I. I. Rabi to the Atomic Energy Commissio...
• The bomb will not start a chain reaction in the water, converting it all to gas and letting all the ships on all the oceans drop down to the bottom.
  It will not blow out the bottom of the sea and let all the water run down the hole....
• A low yield atomic bomb is like being a bit pregnant.
• Just one atomic bomb could ruin your whole day.
• Martin: I would've thought that being hit by an atomic bomb would've killed him.
  Bart: Now you know better....
• It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan.
  The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons....
• One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.