The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

We would be throwing the atomic bomb ... the last weapon in our arsenal.

The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.

You cannot make a nuclear weapon out of this, you can't use it for a dirty bomb.

Nuclear scientists lost their innocence when we used the atom bomb for the very first time. So we could argue computer scientists lost their innocence in 2009 when we started using malware as an offensive attack weapon.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.