While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.

At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now.

Let man heal the hurt places and revere whatever is still miraculously pristine.

Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations.

Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.