Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, August 6, 1995 TAG: 9508090030
SECTION: HORIZON PAGE: D-1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Col. Paul W. Tibbets Jr., pilot, Enola Gay, 1945
``My God! What have we done?''
Capt. Robert A. Lewis, Enola Gay co-pilot
``Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure, and that survival is not assured.''
Broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, 1945
``In an instant, without warning, the present had become the unthinkable future.''
Time magazine, 1945
``The atomic bomb has changed everything except the nature of man.''
Albert Einstein, 1945
``This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every human being capable of comprehension.''
Winston Churchill, 1945
``In that terrible flash 10,000 miles away, men here have seen not only the fate of Japan, but have glimpsed the future of America.''
James Reston, The New York Times, 1945
``They asked me what I thought of the atomic bomb. I said I had not been able to take any interest in it. ... What is the use if they are really as destructive as all that.''
Writer Gertrude Stein, 1946
``The fences are gone, and it is we, the civilized, who have pushed standardless conduct to its ultimate.''
Atomic Energy Commission Chairman David Lilienthal to diary, 1947
``The world has virtually accepted the inevitability of another war.''
Saturday Review editor Norman Cousins, December, 1948
``An arms race unprecedented in the history of the world is driving us madly toward destruction. ... [People] are trembling because they feel we are on the verge of a third world war, a war which could sweep civilization back into the Middle Ages.''
The Rev. Billy Graham, presiding at a tent revival in Los Angeles, 1949
``There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question, `When will I be blown up?' ''
William Faulkner, accepting the Nobel Prize, 1950
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