Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 126 |
| AUTHOR: | Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (1894–1971) |
| QUOTATION: | I happened to read recently a remark by the American nuclear physicist W. Davidson, who noted that the explosion of one hydrogen bomb releases a greater amount of energy than all the explosions set off by all countries in all wars known in the entire history of mankind. And he, apparently, is right. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The physicist quoted was eventually found to be William Davidon, associate physicist at Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois. |
| SUBJECTS: | Bombs and bombing |