The atomic bomb ... made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
Source: Quoted by Richard Rhodes The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Simon & Schuster 87
-- J Robert Oppenheimer, (Apr 22 1904-1967), US physicist; The Father of the Atom Bomb headed Los Alamos, NM lab A-bomb team.