Winston Churchill, Statement drafted following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Due to the change in government, the statement was released by Clement Attlee (August 6, 1945). In Victory: War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston Churchill (1946), p. 289
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This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every human being capable of comprehension. We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among the nations, and that instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, may become a perennial fountain of world prosperity.

— Winston Churchill on Nuclear war

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every human being capable of comprehension. We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among the nations, and that instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, may become a perennial fountain of world prosperity." in the context of "Winston Churchill, Statement drafted following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Due to the change in government, the statement was released by Clement Attlee (August 6, 1945). In Victory: War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston Churchill (1946), p. 289" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill KG OM CH TD FRS PC (November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965) was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was a Sandhurst-educated soldier, a Nobel Prize-winning writer and historian, a prolific painter, and one of the longest-serving politicians in British history. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, though he was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.