Atomic may refer to:
- Of or relating to the atom, the smallest particle of a chemical element that retains its chemical properties
- Atomic Age, also known as the "Atomic Era"
- Atomic (magazine), an Australian computing and technology magazine
- Atomic Skis, an Austrian ski producer
- Atomic (band), a Norwegian jazz quintet
- Atomic (album), an album by Lit
- "Atomic" (song), a song by Blondie
- "Atomic", a song by Tiger Army from Tiger Army III: Ghost Tigers Rise
- Atom (order theory) in mathematics
Famous quotes containing the word atomic:
“It is now time to stop and to ask ourselves the question which my last commanding officer, Admiral Hyman Rickover, asked me and every other young naval officer who serves or has served in an atomic submarine. For our Nation M for all of us M that question is, “Why not the best?””
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)
“The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced—by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.”
—Erich Fromm (1900–1980)
“No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he’s got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)