Tom Udall Quotes

I also was producing, working on other materials for the hydrogen bomb. They call it lithium-6 and tritium. I was working on these and the only use for lithium-6 is the hydrogen bomb.

Unlike uranium, plutonium was created in an American lab in 1940, but scientists soon realized that it could produce even wilder chain reactions and even bigger explosions. In fact, fearing another country would create it, too, the American government went to great lengths to keep even the existence of plutonium a secret.

By developing atomic energy for peaceful purposes, you reach the nuclear option. There are no two atomic energies.

Atoms for War and Atoms for Peace are Siamese twins.

The nuclear industry in America was built on the back of the Defense Department.

The Physicist was the darling of the cold war …atomic energy was responsible for so much of the politics of the Cold War.

These experiments might make it possible to produce power by means of nuclear energy and radioactive elements. Unfortunately also perhaps atomic bombs.

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.

Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining. Copper is huge here, and now uranium. And then we have the federal government coming in, writing all these rules and regulations and telling us that we can't do this and we can't do that. We need concise, clear answers.

Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.

We are still at the stumbling stage in atomic weapons.

In the past, scientists could disclaim direct responsibility for the use to which mankind had put their disinterested discoveries. We cannot take the same attitude now because the success which we have achieved in the development of nuclear power is fraught with infinitely greater dangers than were all the inventions of the past.

I do not believe that nuclear power is worth it, if it creates radiation.

There is nothing more costly than nuclear power.

The emergence of the Atomic Age brought the previously inchoate and 'free-floating' anxiety of many people into sharp focus.

I would say that I was absolutely convinced of the possibility of our making an uranium engine, but I never thought that we would make a bomb; and at the bottom of my heart, I was really glad that it was to be an engine and not a bomb.

We have large resources of uranium that we are exploring, and we are extremely encouraged.

The central government wants to increase the number of nuclear power plants but we believe nuclear plants have their inherent problems.

Nuclear proliferation has never entirely been brought under control, and the arsenals of nuclear powers contain bombs far more powerful than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I love nuclear.