 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
WYATT: Surely the H-bomb is a weapon of an entirely different character. It's not just a larger weapon in the same field, but something which makes it an entirely different sort of instrument.
RUSSELL: Yes, but people get used to things so frightfully quickly. When the atomic bomb was dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki the world was struck with terror, and they thought, "How very dreadful this is." Well, now the atomic bomb is counted as a tactical weapon and nobody cares a button about it. It's a nice little old thing like bows and arrows.
Source: Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind, 1960, interview 12