Harold J. Laski Quotes

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

I want to work hard toward my goal that there will be zero nuclear power generation.

I'm afraid there's a big confusion in the world between nuclear power and nuclear arms.

For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.

We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.

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

If France can produce 80 percent of its electricity with nuclear power, why can't we?

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

I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me.

People either buy nuclear power, nuclear reactors from outside, and don't train their own men, or they just don't go into nuclear power at all, they are so afraid of it.

No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].

The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.

I hate people. People make me pro-nuclear.

Personally I would like to see that the nuclear age, in terms of power, does come, because there's no long-term future for developing countries without nuclear power.

The secret of atomic energy does not belong to America … it belongs to al mankind.

So terrible a weapon simply had to have an important peaceful use ... We were grimly determined to prove that this discovery was not just a weapon.

I don't know why people are always afraid of a nuclear blast.

Atoms for War and Atoms for Peace are Siamese twins.

We cannot have as our goal a world that cannot conceivably come to pass unless all scientific knowledge of the atom is erased.

You might ask me why do I have nuclear powered ships. That is a necessary evil. I would sink them all (if they were not absolutely necessary).

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

The biggest risks posed by nuclear power come not from the technology but from the human institutions that govern how we use it.

… literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.

I have no hope that a nuclear disaster can be avoided.

Nearly one third of Japan would have had to evacuate from their communities…. I came to believe that we should halt further operations of nuclear energy that entail such huge risks…. Japan can supply its energy needs without nuclear power