A review by leasttorque
The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition by Richard Rhodes, Holter Graham

5.0

“... but I fear that machines are ahead of morals by some centuries and when morals catch up perhaps there’ll be no reason for any of it. I hope not. But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there’ll be a reckoning—who knows?” — Harry S. Truman

To hell with bombs, to hell with guns, to hell with mines, to hell with chemical and biological weapons, to hell with imperialist psychopaths, to hell with people who can’t sit down and work out their differences without killing.

To hell with so-called civilization that creates choices between long wars of attrition and weapons of mass destruction.

To hell with nature red in tooth and claw.