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32 “disturbing.” Ibid., 1019.
32 “interchangeable with the conventional weapons” Chang, “To the Nuclear Brink,” 106.
32 “next month or two.” Ibid., 107.
32n “Isn’t it a fair statement today, Dr. Oppenheimer,” United States Atomic Energy Commission, In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer, 149.
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37 “one of the gravest” Darwin, The Origin of Species, 505.
39n “If belief in the reality of atoms is so crucial,” Blackmore, “Ernst Mach Leaves ‘The Church of Physics,’” 524-25.
55 As early as 1949, scientists realized Reines and Suydam, Preliminary Survey of Physical Effects Produced by a Super Bomb, 910.
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58 “An underground explosion was indeed carried out” U.S. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States 1964-1968, vol. 11, item 66.
59 “the answer to a dream as old as man himself,” A is for Atom, directed by Carl Urbano.
59 “into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing” Dwight D. Eisenhower, “The ‘Atoms for Peace’ Address to the United Nations General Assembly,” 8 December 1953, in Cantelon, Hewlett, and Williams, eds., The American Atom, 102.
60 “A Higher Intelligence decided” Lewis Strauss, “My Faith in the Atomic Future,” in Cantelon, Hewlett, and Williams, eds., The American Atom, 107.
60 “If your mountain is not in the right place,” O’Neill, The Firecracker Boys, 88.
60n “I had a hand in formulating and popularizing that hope” David E. Lilienthal, Change, Hope, and the Bomb, 109.
61 “So you want to beat” Teller and Brown, The Legacy of Hiroshima, 82.
62 “they shall beat their swords into plowshares” The King James Version of the Bible, Isaiah 2:4.
62 The ideas started coming Teller and Brown, The Legacy of Hiroshima, 80-91; O’Neill, The Firecracker Boys, 26; Seaborg, with Loeb, Stemming the Tide, 310; McPhee, The Curve of Binding Energy, 112-13.
62 “We will change the earth’s surface to suit us,” Teller and Brown, The Legacy of Hiroshima, 84.
62 “One will probably not resist for long” O’Neill, The Firecracker Boys, 23-24.
63 the harbor made little economic sense Ibid., 39.
64 “pinhead-sized white and gritty snow” U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Nuclear Agency, Castle Series, 1954, 210.
64n A Russian soldier died Sakharov, Memoirs, 192.
65 “raw, weeping lesions” Cronkite et al., Study of Response of Human Beings Accidentally Exposed to Significant Fallout Radiation, 3-4.
65 “well and happy” The Atomic Cafe, directed by Jayne Loader and Kevin Rafferty.
65 “Radioactive Fish Sought In Japan” Parrott, “Nuclear Downpour Hit Ship During Test at Bikini—U.S. Inquiry Asked,” 9.
65 “Each nuclear bomb test” Pauling, “Science and Peace.”
66 “It is possible to say unequivocally” Johnston, “No Danger Seen in Nuclear Tests.”
66 “observable fallout on Los Angeles.” Ogle, An Account of the Return to Nuclear Weapons Testing After the Moratorium 1958-1961, 101.
66 “Radiation from test fallout” Teller and Brown, The Legacy of Hiroshima, 180.
66 “Our custom of dressing men in trousers” Ibid., 181.
66 Teller even suggested that the dead captain: Ibid., 173.
66n “The opposition Pauling encountered” Jahn, “Presentation Speech.”
66n “So human samples are of prime importance,” “In the Matter of: Biophysics Conference.” Transcript, p. 8, lines 12-14.
67 “fallout fear-mongers”: Teller and Brown, The Legacy of Hiroshima, 181.
67 “insignificant and doubtful medical considerations” Ibid., 183.
67 “The Administration was bracing itself today” Kenworthy, “U.S. Thinks Soviet Will Pledge Halt In Nuclear Tests,” 1.
67 “cessation of tests of all forms” Associated Press, “Text of Resolution.”
67 “Russia has beaten us on propaganda” Kenworthy, “U.S. Warns Free Nations Not to Be Misled by Soviet,” 16.
67n “Deploring the mutations that may be caused by fallout” Teller and Brown, The Legacy of Hiroshima, 181.
68 “limited war” Ibid., 235ff.
69 “Beat your plowshares