"Much, I imagined, like members of a religious order would, I shared with my colleagues a sense of brotherhood, living…"

"Despite their revolutionary character those bombs were built under an old and familiar set of assumptions: that if th…"

"Culture, technology and war are so interdependent that it is hard to say which drives which. War pushes ahead the dev…"

"Edward Condon: Why would we move out to the middle of the desert for two to three years? Leslie Groves: Why? How abou…"

"J. Robert Oppenheimer: Albert, when I came to you with those calculations, we thought we might start a chain reaction…"

"It is with appreciation and gratefulness that I accept from you this scroll for the Los Alamos Laboratory, and for th…"

"Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intima…"

"The British Government is determined that Germany shall never again be able to disturb the peace of the world."

"We shall not be diverted from our purpose of destroying German militarism and Nazism."

"The Allies have agreed that the German people must be given the opportunity to prepare for the eventual reconstructio…"