Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki/events of 7-9 August

Famous quotes containing the words atomic, events and/or august:

    “The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.”
    —William James (1842–1910)

    “I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.”
    —J. August Strindberg (1849–1912)