The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.

When the news first came that Japan had attacked us my first feeling was of relief that ... a crisis had come in a way which would unite all our people. This continued to be my dominant feeling in spite of the news of catastrophes which quickly developed.

Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.

If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won't work.

History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.