Richard Rhodes

The challenge was to make the world safe for democracy and freedom.

From The Making of the Atomic Bomb

In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

From The Making of the Atomic Bomb

The world has changed, and so has our understanding of what it means to be human.

From The Making of the Atomic Bomb

The physicists had unleashed a force that could destroy the world.

From The Making of the Atomic Bomb

The moral implications of scientific discovery are profound and far-reaching.

From The Making of the Atomic Bomb

We knew the world would not be the same.

From The Making of the Atomic Bomb

The quest for knowledge often comes with dire consequences.

From The Making of the Atomic Bomb

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war more terrible than any war that had ever been fought.

From The Making of the Atomic Bomb

To be a scientist is to be a child at a time when the world is in a state of crisis.

From The Making of the Atomic Bomb

In the end, the bomb was a product of human ingenuity and folly.

From The Making of the Atomic Bomb