| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 237 |
| AUTHOR: | J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–67) |
| QUOTATION: | We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, “Atomic Weapons and American Policy,” Foreign Affairs, July 1953, p. 529. |
| SUBJECTS: | Cold war |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia |
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