Atomic bomb quotes

“- Stephen Falken: The whole point was to find a way to practice nuclear war without destroying ourselves. To get the computers to learn from mistakes we couldn't afford to make. Except, I never could get Joshua to learn the most important lesson.
- David Lightman: What's that?
- Stephen Falken: Futility. That there's a time when you should just...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Wood - Falken
Matthew Broderick - David

“Fucking men like you built the hydrogen bomb. Men like you thought it up. You think you're so creative. You don't know what it's like to really create something; to create a life; to feel it growing inside you. All you know how to create is death and destruction.”

Linda Hamilton - Sarah Connor

“Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines.”
George C. Scott - Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson

“- Giles Prentice: A Broken what?
- Secretary of Defense Baird: Broken Arrow. It's a Class 4 Strategic Theatre Emergency. It's what we call it when we lose a nuclear weapon.
- Giles Prentice: I don't know what's scarier, losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it.”
Frank Whaley - Giles Prentice
Kurtwood Smith - Secretary of Defense Baird

“You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?”
Steve Buscemi - Rockhound

“- Captain Cutshaw: Can you prove there's a foot?
- Colonel Kane: There are some arguments from reason.
- Captain Cutshaw: Are those the things we use to justify dropping atomic bombs on Japan?”
Scott Wilson - Capt. Billy Cutshaw
Stacy Keach - Col. Vincent Kane

Learned a new word today. "Atom bomb". It was like the God taking a photograph.
Christian Bale - Jim

Listen to me. I know this, too. It will happen again. 200,000 dead, 80,000 wounded in nine seconds. Those are official figures. It will happen again. It will be 10,000 degrees on the earth. "Ten thousand suns," they will say. The asphalt will burn. A deep chaos will prevail. A whole city will be raised and once more crumble into ashes.
Emmanuelle Riva - Elle

“Just as in love, there is this illusion, this illusion that you will never be able to forget, the way I had the illusion, faced with Hiroshima, that I would never forget. Just as in love.”
Emmanuelle Riva - Elle

“- Lui: What did Hiroshima mean to you, in France?
- Elle: The end of the war... completely, I mean. Amazement that they dared, amazement that they succeeded. And for us, the start of an unknown fear. Then, indifference. And fear of that indifference.”
Eiji Okada - Lui
Emmanuelle Riva - Elle

“- Lui: What's the film you're in?
- Elle: A film about peace. What else would we be making in Hiroshima?”
Eiji Okada - Lui
Emmanuelle Riva - Elle

“Four times at the museum in Hiroshima. I saw people walking around. People walking, thoughtful, past the photographs and reconstructions, for lack of anything else. Photographs, photographs and reconstructions, for lack of anything else. Explanations, for lack of anything else. Four times at the museum in Hiroshima. I looked at the people. I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Emmanuelle Riva - Elle

“If we permit the introduction of nuclear missiles to a Soviet satellite nation in our hemisphere, the diplomatic consequences will be too terrible to contemplate. The Russians are trying to show the world they can do whatever they want, wherever they want, and we're powerless to stop them. If they succeed...”
Henry Strozier - Dean Rusk

“You see, in this business... the keys to the kingdom is weapons-grade plutonium.”

Steven Seagal - Jonathan Cold

“- President Nemerov: I ordered no such attack. You must not respond to this action until we have investigated all possibilities.
- President Fowler: Like you did in Chechnya? Mr. President, who is in control of your armed forces?
- President Nemerov: You dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. You dropped the bomb on Nagasaki. Do not lecture me on Chechnya!”

Ciarán Hinds - President Nemerov
James Cromwell - President Fowler

“Nuclear weapons, Jack. They mean nothing. Everybody's got 'em, nobody has the balls to use 'em. Am I right?”

Kevin McCarthy - Victor Eugene Scrimshaw

Edward Bailey was a genius physicist who built some of the greatest stuff during the Cold War. Neutron bombs, particle beam weapons, nerve gas. Excellent nerve gas. You know, he was a... rock star of conceptual mass killing. They called him the "The Da Vinci of Death".
John Malkovich - Marvin

“Japan has surrendered, brought to its knees by the most terrible weapon ever devised: the atomic bomb. The country is a smoking ruin.”

Matthew Fox - General Bonner Fellers

“- Q: We packed the finder with a highly concentrated plastic explosive. Sufficient to remove a door of any safe. Its magnetic. The actuating signal is personalized.
- James Bond: What's my code?
- Q: Most appropriate: A wolf whistle.”
Desmond Llewelyn - Q
Timothy Dalton - James Bond

What do you think is going to happen out there? You think we're going to sweep up the dead and fill in a couple of holes and build some supermarkets? You think all those people left alive out there are going to say, "Oh, I'm sorry. It wasn't my fault. Let's kiss and make up"? We knew the score. We knew all about bombs, we knew all about fallout.... (continue)(continue reading)
Amy Madigan - Alison Ransom

“Amoebas don't make motorcycles and atomic bombs!”
Takeshi Kusao - Kai

“You think that nuclear war is unthinkable because once it starts, no-one can win. Well, you're wrong!”
Peter Cook - Sir Mortimer Chris

- Perry White: These guys claim that if the French government doesn't meet their demands, they've got a hydrogen bomb ready to level Paris.
- Clark Kent: Well, jeepers Mr. White. That's terrible!
- Perry White: That's why they call them "terrorists", Kent.
Jackie Cooper - Perry White
Christopher Reeve - Clark Kent

“They look warlike? Jesus Christ, we're lighting off nuclear weapons like it's our own private Fourth of July!”
Kevin Costner - Kenny O'Donnell

“Let me state clearly what principles are involved for Japan. We neither, possess, nor use, nuclear weapons. That being the case we cannot permit their use now. That's final.”
Keiju Kobayashi - Prime Minister Mitamura