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Quotes of the Day for 2 December 2004 - Nuclear Power

On a squash court under Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, in the middle of a strange pile of black blocks, the very first controlled nuclear chain reaction took place on this day in 1942. Exactly fifteen years later, the first nuclear power plant went online in Pennsylvania. To mark the changes in our world since then, here are some quotes on Nuclear Power.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
     - Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 1900 - 1965

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
     - Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.
     - Raymond G. Swing

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
     - Omar Nelson Bradley

I happened to read recently a remark by the American nuclear physicist W. Davidson, who noted that the explosion of one hydrogen bomb releases a greater amount of energy than all the explosions set off by all countries in all wars known in the entire history of mankind. And he, apparently, is right.
     - Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, 1894 - 1971

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
     - Arthur J Goldberg, 1908 - 1990

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